The Skene Album – An artistic partnership between author and artist TAGS: conservation | High Quality Photography | Illustration | James Skene | Landscape | Scotland | Sir Walter Scott | Skene Album James Skene was a close friend of one of Scotland’s greatest and most influential writers. By profession  he was a lawyer, but he was also a keen amateur artist. Skene …Continue reading →

Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected 5 TAGS: Bank of sweets | Black Shuck | book illustration | carollers | childhood memories | Children's stories | Christmas | Edinburgh College of Art | Henry VIII | Hertfordshire | Hitchin | hobby horse | Illustration | krakow | Lajkonik | lany poniedzialek | masqueraders | Norfolk | Notgeld | Ogre of Smeeth | Pedlar of Swaffham | poland | rare books | Smigus-dyngus | Special Collections | Wet Monday Wet Monday, Henry VIII Falls in the River, and the Ogre of Smeeth, all funded through the Bank of Sweets. For our fifth visit to the ECA Illustration students’ Notgeld …Continue reading →

Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected 4 TAGS: Abstract | Arctic Monkeys | book illustration | Busan | Edinburgh | Edinburgh College of Art | fork | Goff | Golf | Illustration | Jessica Ennis-Hill | Korea | lace | Leith | Notgeld | Nottingham | Scottish independence | Sean Bean | Sheffield | Special Collections Lace, Forks, The Arctic Monkeys and Golf This is the fourth in our series of posts based on the current exhibition in the Library Gallery, and the project by Edinburgh …Continue reading →

Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected. 3 TAGS: book illustration | Edinburgh College of Art | etching | hippogriff | Illustration | Mars | Notgeld | rabbits | rare books | steampunk | Utopia Hippogriffs, Rabbits, Skyship Ports and Mars: Fantasy Worlds In our third visit to the student Notgeld and its connections with the exhibition, we move into the realms of fantasy. Some …Continue reading →

Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected: 2 TAGS: Edinburgh College of Art | Illustration | Jesuits | Notgeld | political cartoons | Robert Parsons | Robert Persons | Satire | Spanish Armada | Trump Satire This is the second in our series of posts based on the current exhibition in the Library Gallery, and the project by Edinburgh College of Art Illustration students, based …Continue reading →

Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected. 1 TAGS: Edinburgh College of Art | Illustration | Notgeld A Sense of Place If you have been passing the Main Library recently you will have seen the exhibition in the Library Gallery on the ground floor, of some of …Continue reading →