No comments about Atlas of the World.

1 comments about Greetings from Cincinnati.

1. Images of 225 postcards in Mary L. Martin, Ltd. collection are OK but there are few details of original postcards - cancel dates or estimated dates are supplied in captions but sizes of original cards are not given and reproduction sizes vary. There is no transcription of information from card backs -- no publisher nor photographer information given. A disappointment to collectors.
   Historical text is filled with errors. Text reads like copy for a version of "Jay-walking" for Jay Leno show -- author is uninformed and ignorant. Too bad publisher did not edit book. A quick look at Internet would have indicated gross inaccuracies in the text.

No comments about New Discoveries in St. Catherine's Monastery (Monograph series).

No comments about The Ranuzzi Manuscripts.

No comments about International Directory of Book Collectors, 1985-1987.

2 comments about Daily Life Depicted in the Cantigas de Santa Maria (Studies in Romance Languages).

1. While the depictions of daily life in this work may be of interest those sections referring to clothing are both convoluted and misleading. Descriptions of garments worn and sumptuary laws reference few other documents then a paper written by Kathleen Kulp-Hill of which the author gives inordinate praise.
   For those researching Garment Construction and reproduction and practices this book provides little more than narrative of images found in the plates and at that the it is often confusing. Tunics being described as modern hunting jackets.
   The casual assumption that the "Star of David" is the symbol required by the "Siete Partidas" for Jewish Sumptuary clothing does not lend credence to the writers study of the corpus of Medeival Spanish or Jewish history and is alarming at best.
   
   The work is overpriced for its relative size and merit into the description of Medieval Life in Alfonso El Sabios Spain.



2. This volume is worth the price for any Cantigas de Santa Maria enthusiast simply for the color plates (although many of these are repeats of those presented in the 1984 book by Keller and Kincade, Iconography in Medieval Spanish Literature). The index, a logically categorized list of specific aspects of daily life in the miniatures, is very thorough indeed and should be extremely useful for further research in Cantigas iconography. The short discussions about each general category do not delve very deeply, and are again only useful as a springboard for further research. Though the written content is not what I would have exopected, for those of us who do not have regular access to the facsimiles, this book is a major blessing.

No comments about Speaking Reminiscently.

No comments about Sylvan Beach and The Rock: A postcard history of the Golden Years.

No comments about The Decorated Bindings in the Marsh's Library.

No comments about Baseball Card Price Guide 1996 (Baseball Card Price Guide).