Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project

March 31, 2003 7:01 AM

Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Projectis an incredible online resource for 19th century children's books. From the site: "The Rosetta Project's collections currently contain about 2,000 antique children's books which were published in the 19th and early 20th century. We shall be putting these combined collections on line as funding permits. Our current goal of putting 2,000 volumes on line will create an online library of aproximately 65,000 html pages. However, as we are still collecting books from around the world, we expect the Rosetta Project online library to eventually reach millions of html pages." (via coudal.)
posted by Pinwheel (7 comments total)

Wow. these are gorgeous. Thanks pw.
posted by condour75 at 7:07 AM on March 31, 2003

Deplorable HTML, but great content. Thanks!
posted by SealWyf at 7:10 AM on March 31, 2003

Lovely. Many members of th' family are going to be getting this here link.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 7:19 AM on March 31, 2003

Pinwheel, I kiss your pins. Children's literature is a VERY strong area of interest to me.
posted by orange swan at 11:02 AM on March 31, 2003

My children thank you.
posted by caddis at 2:56 PM on March 31, 2003

this is wonderful! thanks!
posted by amberglow at 3:17 PM on March 31, 2003

Beautiful. I can almost feel and smell them. Old books, especially children's books have a magic of their own.

Thanks Pinwheel, this link will bring enjoyment to a lot of adults and children.
posted by Tarrama at 10:31 PM on March 31, 2003