The Infinite Collection

So, while we're in the vast library of the last post, let's examine a book at random. Hmm, no dust to be seen on any volume. Someone takes good care of the infinite collection. Let's just stroll along the mezzanine level and reaching out . . . take a . . . book . . . from . . . there.

There. What do we have? Ah — Translations from the Chinese, by Arthur Waley. Let's see the date, hmm, I always have to think a little harder to figure Roman Numerals . . . ah! 1941 I believe. Only some 70 years ago.

Not a classic, per se, but nice, with nice full-bleed illustrations by . . . Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. Again, not classic, but serviceable and appropriate to the times of 1941.

Take a look-see.

Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge — Translations from the Chinese — 1941

Athenaeum

Imagine if you will, the ultimate library — with probably every book in the world ever printed, past present and future, on shelves that stretch off into infinity. It might look something like this sample slice of a poster by Brad W. Foster.

Mr. Foster has the entire lovingly detailed poster available for sale, along with other lovely graphix at his website, Jabberwocky Graphix. If you want to get inside the entire library, just click here.

More about Foster's work down the road.

© 1982 Brad W. Foster — a section of Athenaeum

used here with permission of Brad Foster