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[Slightly More Festive] Illustration of [Christmas] Day: “The Psalms for Modern Life” (London 1933) by Arthur Wragg.
“The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.” - psalm 126

Illustration of the Day: “The Psalms for Modern Life” (London 1933) by Arthur Wragg.
1. “My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning.” - psalm 130

Illustration of the Day: The Pictorial Edition of Shakespeare (c.1860)
- The Birth of Merlin (1622)
“From Stygian darkness summon up the Fates .. Assist you spirits of infernal deeps, squint eyed Erictho, midnight Incubus .. Rise, rise to aid this birth prodigious.”

@PatchLimb - casting a fly can be elegant and satisfying, but bitter experience makes me wonder whether, in this illustration, such a tall hat might not be in danger of being embarrassingly snagged by an inexpert attempt.
Francis Francis, A Book on Angling (1920) :
https://t.co/pNRa8lXEs0

@PatchLimb @RobGMacfarlane Love this book! Figures only start appearing on p.372 in the section on trees (to give a sense of scale, perhaps). Here’s a sad man feeding acorns to his hogs, and happy people round a lindenbaum.
& whole thing here:
https://t.co/SSVYVKcQvm

@RobGMacfarlane @Cornell_Library And this is the much earlier Pomona Herefordiensis (1811) which has an index of just 30 items - perhaps an indication of the explosion of new varieties in the 19th Century?
https://t.co/BZu93PYtPF
Here’s the Foxwhelp:

@RobGMacfarlane @Cornell_Library Medlars and quinces squeezed in at the end of The Herefordshire Pomona.
See the whole book here:
https://t.co/VZGVUqegOX