{"id":9672,"date":"2011-07-13T02:24:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T01:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9672"},"modified":"2025-09-20T19:31:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T18:31:28","slug":"further-oddities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/07\/13\/further-oddities\/","title":{"rendered":"Further oddities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/lambshead-further-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/lambshead-further.jpg\" alt=\"lambshead-further.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Another of my Lambshead title pages. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>A slight return to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/07\/07\/the-thackery-t-lambshead-cabinet-of-curiosities\/\">that book<\/a>. Co-editor Jeff VanderMeer posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffvandermeer.com\/2011\/07\/12\/release-week-the-thackery-t-lambshead-cabinet-of-curiosities-and-how-you-can-get-involved\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a page of <em>Lambshead<\/em> links<\/a> which he&#8217;ll be following up with extracts from some of the contributors. He&#8217;ll also be having a draw to give out signed copies to people who write something about the book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bloggers (non-contributors) who post the link to their mention of the antho in the [Ecstatic Days] comments thread will be in the drawing for a free copy of the book, signed by the editors, as well as a copy of the coffee table book <em>The Steampunk Bible<\/em>, along with a few surprises\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/monstrorum-historia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/cacodaemonis.jpg\" alt=\"cacodaemonis.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Monstrum alatum, &amp; cornutum instar Cacodaemonis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And by coincidence, the latest post at BibliOdyssey is a selection of woodcut illustrations from Ulissi Aldrovandi&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/monstrorum-historia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Monstrorum Historia<\/em><\/a> (1642). Many of these (or copies of the same) are familiar from later collections but as always it&#8217;s good to see the original printings.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-etching-and-engraving-archive\/\">The etching and engraving archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/07\/07\/the-thackery-t-lambshead-cabinet-of-curiosities\/\">The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/08\/03\/licetis-monsters\/\">Liceti\u2019s monsters<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/07\/13\/portuguese-diseases\/\">Portuguese Diseases<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/08\/the-specimens-of-alex-cf\/\">The specimens of Alex CF<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/20\/walmor-correas-memento-mori\/\">Walmor Corr\u00eaa\u2019s Memento Mori<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/04\/23\/pasticheurs-addiction\/\">Pasticheur\u2019s Addiction<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/11\/05\/the-art-of-ron-pippin\/\">The art of Ron Pippin<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/10\/08\/custom-creatures\/\">Custom creatures<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/06\/15\/jan-svankmajer-the-complete-short-films\/\">Jan \u0160vankmajer: The Complete Short Films<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/01\/29\/cryptozoology\/\">Cryptozoology<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/07\/14\/the-museum-of-fantastic-specimens\/\">The Museum of Fantastic Specimens<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another of my Lambshead title pages. A slight return to that book. Co-editor Jeff VanderMeer posted a page of Lambshead links which he&#8217;ll be following up with extracts from some of the contributors. He&#8217;ll also be having a draw to give out signed copies to people who write something about the book: Bloggers (non-contributors) who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/07\/13\/further-oddities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Further oddities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4,21,48,23],"tags":[1400,1042,375,142,249,4026,2723],"class_list":["post-9672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","category-work","tag-alex-cf","tag-bibliodyssey","tag-jan-svankmajer","tag-jeff-vandermeer","tag-steampunk","tag-thackery-t-lambshead","tag-ulissi-aldrovandi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2w0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}