Special Collections Leaflet

Selected images highlighted in the University of Warwick Library Special Collections leaflet with title details and links to the library catalogue

In order of appearance in leaflet - from left to right.

Watercolour painting of a town square

Book details: English water-colour, with reproductions of drawings by eminent painters edited by Holme, Charles, 1902.

A page from Ameto: over comedia delle nimphe fiorentine

Book details: Ameto: over comedia delle nimphe fiorentine by Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1524.

Navy blue front cover of a book, title English Watercolour is in gold capital letters

Book details: English water-colour, with reproductions of drawings by eminent painters

edited by Holme, Charles, 1902.

Decorative book cover titled “Baby’s Own Aesop” by Walter Crane, featuring two white storks flanking a central doorway and a child figure, with bold green and red ornamental patterns.

Book details: The baby's own Aesop: being the fables, condensed in rhyme, with portable morals by Crane, Walter Facsimile editions from the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books., 1981. Originally published 1887.

Illustrated theatre stage scene showing performers dancing in front of a painted backdrop with trees and a fountain, framed by ornate curtains and viewed by an audience seated below.

Book details: Cinderella: with five set scenes and nine trick changes Facsimile editions from the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books., 1981. Originally published [ca. 1880]

Textured reproduction of a watercolour landscape showing a narrow stream running through rocky terrain, surrounded by muted brown and grey tones with a faint crosshatched pattern overlay.

Book details: Turner's water-colours at Farnley Hall by Turner, J. M. W., 1912.