The story of my house
George H. Ellwanger's 1891 collection of essays on domestic architecture, interiors, and book collecting, issued in New York by D. Appleton for American readers furnishing homes and libraries. The plates reproduced here are engraved music excerpts on tan stock: short piano staves with beamed sixteenths, slurs, crescendo hairpins, and italic tempo marks like rit. and a tempo, usable as texture, borders, or type specimens.
