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It's #FinePressFriday! In 1974, Lewis and Dorothy Allen, proprietors of the Allen Press in California, hand-printed this version of John Dryden’s 17th-C play 'All for Love,' a tragedy in blank verse about the affair of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. More: https://t.co/iDgjJfO9l2

Okay these are just so fun we have to share a few more!

#StaffPickoftheWeek: "'Der Tanz' is a 1908 collection of dance illustrations by Ferdinand von Řezníček published in Munich by Albert Langen. I was taken by the sweeping action, drama, and humor in these color lithographs, so evocative of the era." More: https://t.co/lnT438h6bX

'As Far as the Yukon,' published by Harper Brothers in 1951, is one of Francis and Florence Jaques' later joint publications. The book recounts a journey taken along the west coast, much of it by train, from southern California to the Yukon. #Feathursday https://t.co/cc7XSK08d4

This week we present a few small wood engravings by the California engraver Paul Landacre from Ward Ritchie’s short memoir of his longtime friend and colleague, designed by Ritchie and printed in 1982 for The Book Club of California in an edition of 650. https://t.co/v0HQ5zH8wJ

For #PublishersBindingThursday, I came across this book, 'A Translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Life of Dante' by G.R. Carpenter. It’s such a pretty binding I couldn’t help but share. It's bound in stamped vellum over boards—fancy! Learn more here: https://t.co/UNaLBXh9iS

This week for #Feathursday we bring you some exotics from 'The World of Animals' by Mary Holmes, with illustrations by the noted French illustrator Pierre Probst, published down the road from us in Racine, Wisconsin by Whitman Publishing Company in 1963. https://t.co/m23tHSwbxc

This #WoodEngravingWednesday we present a few wood engravings by Barry Moser from his printing of American poet Louis Simpson’s poem 'The Invasion of Italy' printed at Main Street, Inc. in 1976 in an edition of 75. Learn more: https://t.co/eVPkTS83uI

Today we feature woodcuts and specimens from legendary American papermaker Dard Hunter’s 'A Papermaking Pilgrimage to Japan, Korea and China,' published in 1936 in New York by Pynson Printers in a limited edition of 350. Learn more: https://t.co/5FWanryQYj

This week for #WoodEngravingWednesday we bring you color wood-engraved illustrations by American printer, designer, and wood engraver Philip Reed for 'Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes' published in New York by Atheneum in 1963. Learn more: https://t.co/7aJmLOAuHH