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Please enjoy these illustrations from v.1 of the revised edition of 'Paxton’s Flower Garden' by John Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton. The color illustrations we are featuring today are by Walter Hood Fitch, a prolific botanical illustrator. Learn more: https://t.co/BqlRhYuoOc

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 on our social media. See more: https://t.co/eIMZ51K42y

Today we present botanical art found in Owen Jones’s classic work 'The Grammar of Ornament,' published by Bernard Quaritch in London in 1868. The book features 120 chromolithographic plates of design examples from across time, geography, and culture. More: https://t.co/kVbQvpPuHx

This week's #StaffPick is the 7 volume set 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' by Edward Gibbon. Created for the #LimitedEditionsClub, these books feature #photogravure prints from #etchings. Read more about Claire's pick: https://t.co/lXzQTAIDq1

The one that got away... Last week Sarah went with Max to visit a donor at their home to pick up some materials for the collection. They decided to keep this book of Japanese decorative art, but let us photograph it to share with you! Learn more: https://t.co/6VpW4FwGmf

'The Naturalist’s Library' in the American Geographical Society Library. UWM Libraries is home to three Distinctive Collections and we will be a doing a series of crossover posts highlighting our sibling departments. Learn more: https://t.co/UQTv51Igu9

This week's staff pick, 'William Morris’s Flowers,' published in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, is new to our reference collection and explores Morris's floral designs. Learn more here: https://t.co/aXlfKtYgYD

It’s #NationalHatDay! And to celebrate we bring you some illustrations from our early printing of the first edition of 'The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins' by Dr. Seuss, published in New York by The Vanguard Press in 1938. Learn more here: https://t.co/14JgaIAeEc

#Feathursday Woodpeckers. These images are from the 1907 edition 'Bird-Life, A Guide to the Study of our Common Birds,' by Frank M. Chapman, with colored plates after drawings by the wildlife artist Ernest Thompson Seton. Learn more: https://t.co/XhGITbj1AU

The 'Dekorative Vorbilder' is a decorative arts periodical published by Julius Hoffman in Stuttgart, Germany from 1890 until the late 1920s in monthly installments. The floral images featured here are from Volume 22 (1911) and Volume 23 (1912). Learn more: https://t.co/K6Uv2ozXap