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While selecting images for last week’s post on the wood engravings of Agnes Miller Parker, we came across this lovely engraving of a Barn Owl nestled in a bower above a churchyard for the 1938 Limited Editions Club printing of Thomas Gray’s "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

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For our final artist in the #5WomenArtists challenge on this #FinePressFriday, we present work by the outstanding Scottish wood engraver Agnes Miller Parker. These engravings are from Thomas Gray‘s, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,' published by the Limited Editions Club.

It looks like this boy and this raven are dutifully following social distancing during this time of COVID-19. This illustration is from our copy of 'Deutsche Jugend: Neue Folge,' published in Berlin by Alphons Dürr in 1887. Learn more: https://t.co/pkssBTQxiK #Feathursday

Our G. A. Henty title this week, 'Through Russian Snows: A Story of Napoleon’s Retreat from Moscow' features illustrations of many horses and traveling through a snowy Russia and an adorable little countess. Learn more: https://t.co/foSRwQkP61

Last Thursday, Max's (most likely) final in person class of the semester did some book binding! Today, we're sharing book binders from our MKE Handicraft Project and the result of some of their work, a book titled 'Come and Sing.' Learn more here: https://t.co/Mwpj6uzhsO

Today we present hand-colored lithographic plates of flowers from 'Sämmtliche Giftgewächse Deutschlands...', by Eduard Winkler. The book is Winkler’s seminal work on all the poisonous plants of Germany and includes 96 colored illustrations. See more here: https://t.co/IZ7vkbTf1h

Today we present decorative art styles 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) National Art Program. Learn more: https://t.co/7cl0WbIMZI

Betsy Ross meets the Women’s Lib Movement in the pages of Playboy!! You read that correctly. This cartoon of Betsy Ross stitching a flag for the Women’s Lib movement to the bewilderment of the Founding Fathers appeared in the August 1971 issue of Playboy. https://t.co/E7QkjHXJXE

This week's #WednesdayFlora are hand-colored lithographs from volume 4 of Asa Strong’s 4-volume work 'The American Flora,' published in New York by Green & Spencer between 1850 and 1853. Learn more here: https://t.co/gAB9dvvRQR