John OverholtA satire on gender roles, the frontispiece of "The Transformation of Woman into Man and Man into Woman" depicts a woman negotiating business affairs while her husband contemplates his reflection. The picture on the wall depicts a man and woman exchanging an axe for a distaff for spinning yarn.
jz.tuskInteresting book, but I think those particular book-hold-openers, (or whatever you call them professionally), deserve a post of their own.
@jztusk They're not mine, the photo is from the bookseller. You can tell it's my photo if there are a couple of fingertips just visible at the bottom holding the book open.
Ah well. I think the one time I visited your library I saw people using some kind of soft beanbag to keep books open. I wondered if you'd transitioned to Baroque cast-bronze human hands. Looked to me like a downgrade in terms of preservation, but then I'm not a professional archivist. :-)