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The book includes 280 wood engravings. Northcote devised the designs accompanying each fable, and wood engraver William Harvey drew Northcote’s designs on wood, which were then engraved by wood engravers. Today we bring you some of the feathered engravings from this book.

A Fabulous Wood-Engraved #Feathursday
Yesterday we presented a selection of wood engravings from 'One Hundred Fables,' written and selected by the painter James Northcote and printed by wood engraver John Johnson for the London publisher George Lawford in 1828.

For #WoodEngravingWednesday we present a selection from 'One Hundred Fables,' written & selected by the English painter James Northcote, printed by British printer and wood engraver John Johnson for the London print publisher George Lawford in 1828. More: https://t.co/2BHp9lo1dS

These images are from 'All Around Us' by Wilbur L. Beauchamp, Gertrude Crampton, and William S. Gray, and published by Scott, Foresman and Company in Chicago in 1944. The book is a part of our Historical Curriculum Collection. Learn more: https://t.co/dHwF02RpQj #FloraAndSylva

Artist Dorothy Iannone is an American visual artist specializing in autobiographical texts, films, and paintings centered around female sexuality and “ecstatic unity." 'You Who Read Me with Passion Now Must Forever be My Friends,' was published in Los Angeles by Siglio Press.

Today we present 'Houses and Gardens' by the English architect and artist M. H. Baillie Scott, published in London by George Newnes Limited in 1906. It features many illustrations of homes and furnishings in the Arts and Crafts Style. Learn more: https://t.co/jC7FDADdwC

On the last day of Women’s History Month, we present wood engravings by one of the most prolific English wood engravers of the 20th century, Joan Hassall, from the 1965 Limited Editions Club production of 'The Poems of Robert Burns.' Learn more here: https://t.co/etUkhqcZF4

A personal favorite is the spoonbill with its pretty pink hue and spoony bill!

This week we present some North American species of Ibises and Spoonbills. These long-legged wading birds are from Rex Brasher’s massive 12-volume set 'Birds and Trees of North America,' self-published in Kent, Connecticut, between 1929 and 1932. More: https://t.co/vJZxIm0E8w

This week we present some wood engravings by Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) from the 1934 Cambridge University Press printing of English poet Frances Cornford’s collection 'Mountains & Molehills.' Learn more here: https://t.co/c2DyBu9ymR