This small hand illustrated Alphabet book by Henry Taylor Wyse, is interesting in that it shows the wide range of ‘marbled’ papers that he produced. His original experiments were made with a machine that looked rather like a cross between a mangle and a printing press. The final papers were printed for him at a local printing press.

HTW had a poetic streak, and wrote many pieces of poetry both for the family, and as political comment. This hand illustrated manuscript gives us a taste of the variety of poetry that he wrote.

These nonsense verses were written towards the end of HTW’s life, and show his interest in world events as they occurred, during the second world war in the 1940’s.

Henry Taylor Wyse published many books and pamphlets throughout his life. Most of these were instructional books, but some showed other sides of his many varied interests.

This file shows some of the cover pages of his many books. Examples of these books are still held within the family.

This book on Modern Methods of Art Instruction was published for the members of the Scottish Art Teachers’ Association. Only parts of the book are reproduced here, along with pages from a small notebook that HTW kept, showing the various newspaper reviews he received.

These are some pages from a small instructional pamphlet published for students. It is an example of an early ‘colouring book’.