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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

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