The Google Book
The Google Book is an illustrated book of children's verse by Vincent Cartwright Vickers, published by the Medici Society in London in 1913.[1] It was republished by Oxford University Press in 1979.[2] The coincidence of the name being the same as the corporation has stimulated comment.[3]
The book has surrealist illustrations of various imaginary birds, such as the Poggle and the Swank, alongside short poems about them. The Google of the title is a strange creature that lives in a pool in a beautiful garden and at night prowls the land where the birds live.
Vincent Cartwright Vickers, whose extended family owned Vickers Limited, was an economist,[4] a humorist and an artist. He wrote and illustrated The Google Book while serving as a governor of the Bank of England.[5]
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- ↑ The Google Book at the Open Library The Medici Society, founded in 1908, specialized in art prints and books by artists
- ↑ 1979 edition at WorldCat ISBN 0192797352
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- ↑ Vincent Vickers' Economic Tribulation
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