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This week's post on the decorative arts features a few chromolithographic plates of ancient Assyrian decorative art from Vol. 1 of the 4-vol Italian art portfolio 'Gli stili nella forma e nel colore, rassegna dell’ arte antica e moderna di tutti i paesi.' https://t.co/pcqc9AJUCd

For Science Saturday this weekend we posted 'The History and Present State of Electricity' by Joseph Priestley, about experimental electrical equipment, published in 1775. Read more: https://t.co/EDq5GhNXw2

Today's #Feathursday is all PIGEONS, FANCY AND FINE! Today we present some domestic pigeon varieties from the two-volume set, 'The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication' by Charles Darwin, published in 1896. See more pigeons here: https://t.co/O054fCtrK5

It's #WoodEngravingWednesday! This week present original wood engravings by the American artist and printmaker Roderick Mead from the fine-press book 'Brandings,' with poems by Katherine Arnstein Heinemann. Learn more about the book and Mead here: https://t.co/edCIunMkJc

For #Caturday this week we shared wood engravings by British artist Reynolds Stone. These two pampered kitties are from 'Boxwood', with poems by the English writer and poet Sylvia Townsend Warner. Learn more here: https://t.co/DK4tjDjD8M

Last Friday on Tumblr we shared Swiss livre d’artiste 'Romances et la bonne chanson,' which includes two short poetry collections by the late-19th-century French poet Paul Verlaine, “Romances sans paroles” and “La bonne chanson." Learn more here: https://t.co/lI4HSxn4oQ

Today is the anniversary of the beginning of construction on the Panama Canal. In honor of this undertaking, we present images of the Gatun Locks construction from Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose by journalist and military writer Willis J. Abbot. https://t.co/RnAUllKhib

This week's Decorative Arts post comes from the portfolio 'Folk Art of Rural Pennsylvania,' selected by the Pennsylvania Art Project for the Index of American Design of the Works Projects Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project. Learn more here: https://t.co/uNuYQnwCPO

Last week for #Feathursday we focused on birds and their nests with a few plates from the appropriately-named children’s book Birds and Their Nests by the English poet and author Mary Howitt. Learn more here: https://t.co/qTMY8OH9GL

One of the giants of American wood engraving in the late 20th century was the prolific but humble New Yorker John DePol. Today we present DePol’s wood-engraved illustrations for poet and novelist Wendell Berry’s collection of poems 'Traveling at Home.' https://t.co/cPHnNpL5T0