Worth A Thousand Words

Where can you find a detailed diagram of the ear, an illustration of a beetle, and a picture of how to hit a tennis backhand?

Your dictionary.

And now artist and book binder John Carrera has categorized and re-printed thousands of the wood-carved illustrations used in the 19th century Merriam-Webster dictionaries and compiled them in a new book called “Pictorial Webster’s, A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities.”

Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now. Host: Robin Young.

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Pictorial Webster's: Inspiration to Completion
from John Carrera on Vimeo.