Decorative Pages from Chicot the Jester

A vintage copy of Chicot the Jester, by Alexandre Dumas, author of The Man in the Iron Mask, Count of Monte Cristo, Three Musketeers…you know the man.

Chicot the Jester is a romance, set in the court of King Henri III. This story is also known as “La Dame de Monsoreau.”

Hardbound with red cloth covers, decorative spine in gold, decorative art nouveau title pages. Published by Dutton as part of the “Everyman” series. 464 pages.

Good condition, the spine is slightly weak but with care you can certainly read and enjoy this book.

Purchase this vintage book in my Etsy shop or browse for other vintage books.

The Devil's Triple Demons

Fighting the Devil’s Triple Demons. Three Books in One Volume.

1. Traffic in Innocent Girls-Protect your Sisters and Daughters.

2. Rum’s Ruinous Rule: Save Your Father’s and Sons.

3. The Sins of Society: Guard Your Homes and Honor.

By Robert J. Moorehead and other well known students of social conditions.

Profusely Illustrated with Striking Pictures.

Copyright 1911.

Condition: Fair/Good copy of this rare and unusual book. Hardback.

Bound in blue cloth, color plate pasted on front. All pages present, all illustrations present, binding a little shaky and worn, in particular, the spine is faded and worn.

This is a very unusual book from a decidedly different time. Men were drunken gamblers and smoked opium, Women were either prostitutes or were frigid and oblivious to their cheating husbands, and the wealthy just gossiped all day and cared for nothing but fine clothes.

This book consists of stories and anecdotes about these people and other members of society that apparently were quite desperate need for the moral tongue lashing the author hands out.

Illustrated with unusual symbolic illustrations and a few photographs of criminals, gamblers, and more.

Available for purchase in my Etsy shop

The Devil's Triple Demons

Colorful and comical postcards from the 1940s, currently for sale in my Etsy shop. Take a look!

These old postcards make wonderful fodder for your family scrapbook. Popular in the 1940s and early 1950s, these postcards would look great paired up with vintage photographs of your family.

Victorian Stereoview Devil and Temptress

This antique photograph is just one half of a stereoview. If you have a viewer, the scene comes alive!

And you can actually own this very vintage photograph! It’s for sale here.

The Techno-Chemical Receipt Book

No self-respecting Steampunk aficionado should be without a copy of

THE TECHNO-CHEMICAL RECEIPT BOOK:
Containing Several Thousand Receipts, Covering the Latest, Most Important and Most Useful Discoveries in Chemical Technology, and Their Practical Application in The Arts and The Industries.

Edited chiefly from the German of Drs. Winckler, Elsner, Heintze, Mierzinski, Jacobsen, Koller and Heinzerling.

With additions by William T. Brannt, Graduate of the Royal Agricultural College of Eldena, Prussia, and William H. Wahl, PH.D. (Heid.), Secretary of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia; author of “Gaivanopiastic Manipulations.”

ILLUSTRATED WITH SEVENTY-EIGHT ENGRAVINGS.

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co., Industrial Publishers, Booksellers and Importers, 810 Walnut Street. London: Sammpson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Crown Building, 188 Fleet Street.

1887

SOLD, please visit my Etsy shop to make another discovery.

EphemeralDelights  has finally gotten off the ground, you can find vintage antique photographs, antique books, pinback buttons and other assorted old goodies.

Victorian Hook Close Up

I used dental tools to pick out the gunk in the crevices. At this point, I’m thinking that it is neither brass or bronze, but cast steel, with some sort of plating. I wish my Dad was still around, he would know.

See another picture under the break.

This hook would have held your coat and hat, probably on a hall tree.