endpapers

TalkTattered but still lovely

Join LibraryThing to post.

endpapers

This topic is currently marked as "dormant"—the last message is more than 90 days old. You can revive it by posting a reply.

12wonderY
Mar 2, 2016, 11:35 am

We talked about this a long time ago and never did anything here about it. So-

Narnia by Pauline Baynes

22wonderY
Mar 2, 2016, 11:45 am

Not a good copy, but my favorite set of books of all time is Book Trails

32wonderY
Mar 2, 2016, 2:20 pm

Norman Thelwell created fun and busy endpapers for Eagle Annual, a British children's comic from the 50s



and

4SylviaC
Mar 2, 2016, 2:51 pm

Love Thelwell's art. I have several books of his cartoons.

5fuzzi
Edited: Mar 8, 2016, 6:59 am

I love endpapers!

Here's one I snagged from the web, from the children's Book House series:



and this is from a Ralph Moody book:


6MrsLee
Mar 8, 2016, 9:33 am

I know I have some lovely endpapers in some of my books. The trick is finding the time (and remembering when I find it) to scan and share them!

7harrygbutler
Mar 11, 2016, 9:37 am

My favorite endpapers were those in the Tom Swift, Jr., books, but I haven't a good example ready to hand.

Here's an earlier iteration, from Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice:



I also quite like this one from Bomba the Jungle Boy and the Perilous Kingdom, though I was unable to prevent some blurring in the middle of the scan: