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We love examples of #extremeprinting items printed under unusual circumstance or in unusual locations. ‘Poblacht na h-Eireann: War News’ composed and printed 20,000 copies on the run until October 1922 when the press sadly fell off a hillside and sank in a bog
#SaintPatricksDay

The King’s Head, brought before the world #otd 1649.
Still a political football or are the rebellions, revolution and regicide something of a taboo for the English?
Are the French and American revolutions seemingly more prominent in our minds than our own?
Opinions please ...

If you are sat at your desks feeling sorry for your #backtowork selves, just bear in mind that it could be worse: you could be working down a mine, in a freezing river etc (or working a 16 hour shift in a coffee franchise like a poor woman we spoke with on the road last night 😡)

Suggestions for Christmas gifts 7. A bowl of fruit or a book of illustrated songs for children.

https://t.co/OvMb8zMkn5

Suggestions for Christmas gifts 6. (tho the numbering is not 100% accurate, sorry). A book of ghostly stories.

https://t.co/RMSZMvk7DX

Happy Birthday William Blake (1757)
He died in 1827 whilst still working on illustrations for Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress.
They were not published until 1941 in an edition by the Spiral Press for the members of the Limited Editions Club, NYC, 1941.
#britishlibrary
C.105.f.7.

Interesting 19c book cover design https://t.co/rwkKFN3j4z and illustrations, too.

“What are the crying sins of this our State”
Barebones woodcut illustrating a Royalist broadside poem, ‘An Elegie and Epitaph upon ... Lord Francis Villars’ printed in London, 1648. Unique copy held @britishlibrary
#WoodcutWednesday
https://t.co/kKnVNvbcrI

Frontispiece to The dragon knight. A poem in twelve cantos. 2nd ed., by James Bland Burges (afterwards Sir, Bart Lamb) printed in London by W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1824.
#dragonsinthelibrary 🐉
#britishlibrary 1570/5386
https://t.co/yJd6ivIRfI