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It's also #Feathursday! We've been seeing lots of hummingbirds lately so today we're sharing some of these tiny, aggressive, mainly nectar-eating birds with a few pages from 'Birds in Their Homes' by Addison Webb & illustrations by Sabra Mallett Kimball. https://t.co/pskblqwjc7

This week's #MondayMotivationOwl is old Friend Owl from the Disney version of Bambi. The images shown here are from the book version of the Disney film 'Walt Disney’s Bambi,' retold by Idella Purnell, published in Boston by D.C. Heath and Co. in 1944. More:https://t.co/7FW0fTIjMA

What does a former Soviet spy and a beloved children's story and acclaimed Disney animated feature film have in common? Well, we'll tell ya! Read about the connection between Bambi and Communism here: https://t.co/NX45Pd5TmO

This week we return to the 'Jeypore Portfolio of Architectural Details,' published in 12 volumes by Bernard Quaritch. Shown here are a few parapet designs, the decorative treatment to the extension of a wall at the edge of a roof, from v.10. See more: https://t.co/3FTnELYtR0

Today we are sharing plates from the first volume of the two-volume set 'Wild Flowers of New York.' Published in 1918 by the University of the State of New York, the set contains 264 colored plates depicting wild flowers found in New York. Learn more here: https://t.co/tAonCKI0Fu

Today for #Feathursday we present select pages from our 1959 Limited Editions Club production of Aristophanes' 'The Birds' with illustrations by American artist Marian Parry. Learn more here: https://t.co/hAvTisflor

It's wood-engraving Wednesday! This week we return to the wood engravings of Michael McCurdy from a collection of his early prints published as Toward the Light by The Porcupine’s Quill. The theme this week is McCurdy’s portraits of literary figures. More: https://t.co/UVVYTTanhP

Last Friday's Fine Press spotlight was on 'St. Kitts Monkey Fights' by Laurence Lieberman with linocuts by Laurence Donovan. Learn more here: https://t.co/T3xjEPa1CO

For #Feathursday we've got three avian prints with examples of their preliminary drawings, from 'Endangered Species, and Other Fables with a Twist' by the noted German-American wood engraver, illustrator, and educator Fritz Eichenberg. See more here: https://t.co/NW1zwGe8mC

For #Feathursday this week, we return to our sibling collection, the American Geographical Society Library’s set of French natural history books 'Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle' with a few hand-colored, steel-engraved avian plates. Learn more: https://t.co/gTXb43vVmj