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Today we present decorative plates from 'Masterpieces of Industrial Art & Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862' selected and described by J. B. Waring (John Burley Waring) and chromolithographed by and under the direction of W. R. Tymms, A. Warren, and G. Macculloch.

In this week's #Caturday post we spend some time with 'Elsa,' the lion adopted by George and Joy Adamson who was released back into the wild. Learn more here: https://t.co/1x6L3gp7Qs

This #FashionFriday its all in the details and layering! Please enjoy this take on 17th & 18th century English & French fashions from 'Costumes of the World' thanks to the imagination & work of artists of Pennsylvania’s Museum Extension Project of the WPA. https://t.co/EAYKymFb6o

It’s #FinePressFriday! This week we present The Lagoon: Images from Oxbow, a collaborative book printed by the MellanBerry Press in the fall of 1989 in an edition of 55. Read more about the book here: https://t.co/XSeNFATHVx

Staff Pick of the Week : 'The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote.' This version of Cervantes’s classic work is an English translation by Tobias Smollet. Read the full post here: https://t.co/Zrip4gGYvl

Today we present hand-colored lithographic plates from 'Sämmtliche Giftgewächse Deutschlands, naturgetreu dargestellt und all gemein fasslich beschrieben' by Eduard Winkler. The book is Winkler’s seminal work on all the poisonous plants of Germany. More: https://t.co/rQnENyic5F

Earlier this summer we started an Instagram account under the handle @uwmspeccoll. It’s been a great addition to our social media presence and we would love it if you followed us! Find us at https://t.co/CncLTraRku

These vibrant floral illustrations are hand-colored lithographs from volume 3 of Asa Strong’s 4-volume work The American Flora, published in New York by Green & Spencer between 1850 and 1853, with illustrations by Edwin Whitefield. https://t.co/d1fzylNYIh

Today is the day we celebrate the Serpentes, those long, scaly, cold-blooded, legless squamates. In celebration, we present a few chromolithographs and wood engravings of snakes doing what snakes do: threatening, crushing, swallowing things, and just hanging out, looking cool.

Today’s severed head comes from an etched frontispiece in 'Notizie al Pellegrino della Basilica di Santa Prassede' ("News for the Pilgrim of the Basilica of Saint Praxedes"), printed in Rome by Antonio De Rossi in 1725. More severed heads here: https://t.co/tISSRyFyff