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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

This weekend we posted some moths from The Naturalist's Library volume on British Moths for #ScienceSaturday. See more here: https://t.co/ZOl3iIVMXe

Today we return to our time travels, arriving in the late 18th century with several hand-painted fashion plates (plate nos. 77-81) from 'Costumes of the World' which illustrate fashions of the late 18th century France. Learn more here: https://t.co/hod9FlSZvl #FashionFriday

It’s #FinePressFriday! This week we present select pages from 'The Branch of Hawthorn Tree' with poems by the prolific Irish poet Monk Gibbon and “colour designs” by the French artist Jean Picart Le Doux, published in 1927. Learn more here: https://t.co/ji0KsN4o9Q

The Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) is perhaps the most well known of the perching ducks in North America. This plate, is a hand-painted print from Rex Brasher’s limited-edition set Birds and Trees of North America, containing reproductions of Brasher’s paintings: https://t.co/yzPyC1acPK

These illustrations are from Volume One of the revised edition of 'Paxton’s Flower Garden' by John Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton, published in 1882. The illustrations we are featuring today are by Walter Hood Fitch, a prolific botanical illustrator. https://t.co/C66dx4Y9Jl

Happy birthday anniversary to #SirArthurConanDoyle born on this day May 22, 1859! To celebrate, we present Sidney Paget’s illustrations from the first American edition of Doyle’s novel 'The Hound of the Baskervilles,' published in 1902. More here: https://t.co/kLW6nMyOzR