[Next Project] His Royal Nibs by Winnifred Eaton Reeve

[Sergio Tellez]

Hello.

I wish to produce the novel His Royal Nibs by Winnifred Eaton Reeve. Unfortunately, I can't find information about this book's artist at the moment, but I think the Gutenberg transcription artwork is usable for a SE production.Thank you!

Transcription: His Royal Nibs by Onoto Watanna | Project Gutenberg

Scans: His royal nibs : Reeve, Winnifred Eaton Babcock | Internet Archive

Possible cover / alternate scans source: His Royal Nibs | Winnifred Eaton Archive

SE Toolset version: 4.0.0

Python version: 3.13.2

[Alex Cabal]

OK, sure, Please send a link to your repo.

The cover art is a maybe - the PG scan quality is very poor. You'd have
to find a better scan. Also I'm not a fan of the unfinished look around
the edges - it *might* work if cropped.

On 7/10/26 3:51 PM, Sergio Tellez wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I wish to produce the novel His Royal Nibs by Winnifred Eaton Reeve.
> Unfortunately, I can't find information about this book's artist at the
> moment, but I think the Gutenberg transcription artwork is usable for a
> SE production.Thank you!
>
> Transcription: His Royal Nibs by Onoto Watanna | Project Gutenberg

> <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66184>

> Scans: His royal nibs : Reeve, Winnifred Eaton Babcock | Internet

> Archive <https://archive.org/details/P005039/page/n7/mode/2up>

> Possible cover / alternate scans source: His Royal Nibs | Winnifred

> Eaton Archive <https://winnifredeatonarchive.org/HisRoyalNibs1.html>

> SE Toolset version: 4.0.0
> Python version: 3.13.2
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[Sergio Tellez]

Thank you very much!

I'll work on this project using this GitHub repo: STellez71124-UC/winnifred-eaton_his-royal-nibs

I did my best to clean up and improve the colors of the cover from the PDF available at the Winnifred Eaton Archive and cropped the image as much as I could. This is how it would look up as a SE book cover mockup. Should I keep it or would it be best to look for an alternative cover at one of the approved cover sources?

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Weijia will manage with Vince reviewing. Weijia you can weigh in on
the artwork.

On 7/12/26 1:59 PM, Sergio Tellez wrote:
> Thank you very much!
>
> I'll work on this project using this GitHub repo: STellez71124-UC/

> winnifred-eaton_his-royal-nibs <https://github.com/STellez71124-UC/
> winnifred-eaton_his-royal-nibs>

> I did my best to clean up and improve the colors of the cover from the
> PDF available at the Winnifred Eaton Archive and cropped the image as
> much as I could. This is how it would look up as a SE book cover mockup.
> Should I keep it or would it be best to look for an alternative cover at
> one of the approved cover sources?
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[Weijia Cheng]

I think it looks good with this crop and restoration work. I added the cover image to the database.

Something I noticed is that you created the project with the author string "Winnifred Eaton," but Alex created the placeholder with "Winnifred Eaton Reeve." It seems that she published novels under both of these names, as well as the pseudonym "Onoto Watanna." This particular novel was published as "Winnifred Eaton Reeve." I think it will be best to use Winnifred Eaton Reeve because it contains her full name and it seems that she used the "Reeve" surname more towards the end of her life. You should go ahead and change the relevant files (metadata, titlepage, colophon, cover, etc.) to use the "Winnifred Eaton Reeve" name.

[Sergio Tellez]

Thanks Weijia!

As I was still in the early steps of producing this book, I thought it would be better to create a new draft and repo just in case, with the new project link being this one:  STellez71124-UC/winnifred-eaton-reeve_his-royal-nibs