About this Web site.

This is a project that began in 1997 but got put aside for what I thought would be "a little while." But it languished on a lost set of floppies for 5 years. The images and text were scanned from a copy of Scribner's archived in the Special Collections room of the University of Iowa Libraries. Between then and now the library at Cornell University reproduced the entire issue of Scribner's Magazine, which includes this article, as a set of gif images in their Making of America Web site. Go there if you'd like to see the original layout (search on "end of books").

Michael Ward has also reproduced "The End of Books," but his version is the original, in French from Contes pour les Bibliophiles a publication that contained 10 other articles by Uzanne and Robida illustrations. The entire volume is being offered for sale as an e-book by hidden-knowledge.com. http://www.hidden-knowledge.com/titles/contesbib/. Ward provides a good introduction to the article with background on Uzanne and Robida with links to related sites.

Download a PDF version of the Scribner's original - not good for screen viewing but prints well.(2.4 Mb)

Contact me if you have problems with this Web site at Karla-Tonella@uiowa.edu

page updated February 12, 2004