Spines Collection

Stories for Tiny Folk
A selection of spines in bold primary colours taken from the 1920s series of Stories for Little Folk books

Ocean liner three books, Titanic, Californian Hull Down
Ocean liner three books, The Titanic and The Californian 1965 by Peter Padfield, first edition, Hull Down by Sir Bertram Hayes, Harland and Wolff, Shipbuilders to The World

Fragments of Codex Justinianus and Digesta
Ten strips of parchment manuscripts cut to similar size and shape, probably used to reinforce the spines of later bindings. They all appear to be from Justinian's Codex and Digesta

Varieties of sea urchins and spines
Sea urchins with various coloured spines. Sea urchins with red, brown and green spines, edible sea urchin, Echinus esculentus 1, Metalia spatagus with brown spines 6

Bramble Shark Date: 1865

Echinopsis Multiplex, a succulent plant of the Cactaceae (cactus) family. The name derives from echinos, meaning hedgehog or sea urchin, and opsis, referring to the plants dense covering of spines

Susi - looking at an illustration in a book. 1950s

Six types of Stickleback: Rough-Tailed or Three-Spined (Gasterosteus aculeatus, also known as Barnstickle, Banstickle, Sharplin and Pricklefish), Half-Armed (Gasterosteus aculeatus aculeatus)

HEDGEHOG - close-up of face (Erinaceus auritus). Ural mountains, Russia

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Porcupine
The fretful porcupine (H. Riley Thornback Esq.) Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H Bennett entitled Shadow and Substance, 1860

Andrew Carnegie reading
Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919) reading in front of a rather splendid bookcase, almost camouflaged by his full tartan suit!

The Book Shop
Two girls (one hardly older than a toddler!) look through a variety of volumes in a Bookshop

? Berberis Plant
An unspecifed plant. Possibly a species of BERBERIS with yellow flowers and holly like leaves

PORCUPINE
Rodent quadruped of the hystericidae family. Its erectile spines, or quills, are a protective device of great effectiveness

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