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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

This week's #TypographyTuesday post was on Weiss types as featured in 'The Weiss Family,' a three-pamphlet publication produced in New York by the Bauer Type Foundry in 1931. Learn more here: https://t.co/7xwbV1bYsc

For #Feathursday we've got some wood engravings of vegetation from American wood engraver and book artist Michael McCurdy’s retrospective collection 'Toward the Light,' published in Erin, Ontario by The Porcupine’s Quill in 1982. Learn more here: https://t.co/BxHP9CPm6E

This week we combine our two Wednesday series, Flora and Sylva and Wood Engraving Wednesday with wood engravings by Michael McCurdy from a collection of his early prints published as 'Toward the Light by The Porcupine’s Quill' in 1982. Learn more here: https://t.co/8v3fs8QmIE

Unlike other A Henty a Week posts, this one features an edited volume by George Alfred Henty as opposed to one of his own single-title historical fiction novels. 'Yule Tide Yarns' contains 10 adventure stories and was published in 1899. Learn more here: https://t.co/HHNaGKxO0m