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Today we present Chipping Sparrows, a Catbird, & their nests from 'Nests & Eggs of Birds of the United States' by Thomas G. Gentry, published in 1882. This tome includes chromolithographs of around 50 paintings of birds, eggs, and nests by Edwin Sheppard. https://t.co/c2Py0PLwhl

Today we present illustrations from v.1 of the revised edition of 'Paxton’s Flower Garden' by John Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton, published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. in London in 1882. The color illustrations seen here are by Walter Hood Fitch. https://t.co/f5lqXHzVJ6

For today’s edition of #MagnificentWomenMonday, we present 'Belinda' by Maria Edgeworth, illustrated by legendary interpreter of classic fiction Chris Hammond. Our copy was published in 1896 by Macmillan in London and New York. Learn more: https://t.co/bSXSShW3Gf

Color printing would have been too expensive in the first book, but it could be done with this one at a relatively cheap cost through the use of three-color printing. Using the three primary colors blue, red and yellow, all color gradations and tones are achieved.

September has several Jewish High Holidays that we are highlighting here with 'Your Neighbor Celebrates The Jewish Holidays,' by Rabbi Irving Rosenbaum, and 'Jewish Holidays' by Chaim Gross which celebrate Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 18-20, 2020, and Yom Kippur, Sept. 27-28, 2020.

'Modelli D'arte Decorativa,' or “Decorative Art Models,” is an Italian art portfolio series from the 1910s. Today we are featuring plates from v.3 which includes paintings, friezes, and decorative landscapes, stained glass, fabric patterns, and medallions. https://t.co/av8oBEcrPh

This week's #ScienceSaturday post featured etchings from 'Relation d'un voyage du Levant' by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, published in Amsterdam, in 1718. The book is a collection letters to the Comte de Pontchartrain published after the author's death. https://t.co/j3TC3ZckHM

Color woodblock illustrations of summer flowers by Ogata Gekkō from 'The Floral Art of Japan: Being a Second and Revised Edition of the Flowers of Japan' and the Art of Floral Arrangement by Josiah Conder, published by Kelly and Walsh in Tokyo in 1899.

'Our Martyr Presidents: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Their Illustrious Lives, Public and Private, and Their Glorious Deeds' by the journalist and biographer John Coulter, outlines nearly every detail surrounding his assassination, including little known details about Czolgosz.

On today’s date, September 14 in 1901, President William McKinley succumbed to two bullet wounds fired by anarchist Leon Czolgosz 8 days prior.