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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

A couple weeks ago we posted about a set of Japanese decorative art books that we saw on a donor visit. Unfortunately, the donor decided to keep the books but they let us take photographs of the woodblock prints to share. See more here: https://t.co/wMM6ik60cS

Our current Historical Curriculum Collection exhibit in the Curriculum Collection on the 2nd floor focuses on ABC books! Head down to the 2nd floor to check it out!

'Das Blumenbuch' was printed in a 3 volume set in Germany from 1929-1930. It features 250 flower illustrations that were drawn by Rudolf Koch, and cut into wood by Fritz Kredel. The woodcuts were hand-colored by Emil Wöllner. Learn more: https://t.co/ZlNZ7YBtV2

This week's Henty book is 'St. Bartholomew’s Eve: a Tale of the Huguenot Wars,' written by George Alfred Henty. The book covers the events of the 1572 St. Bartholomew's Eve Massacre. Learn more here: https://t.co/s2OI2QNleC