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We’re feeling a little prickly today, so we thought we’d show a few plates from volume one of Mary Vaux Walcott’s 5-volume, signed, limited-edition portfolio North American Wild Flowers that reflect our mood. Learn more here: https://t.co/22FM1ks7At

For the month of September, and the beginning of the fall semester, we present all of the wood engravings, photogravures, and chromolithographs from the Sept. 1903 issue of the early 20th-century periodical 'Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review.' Learn more: https://t.co/KgMQ5M5sJa

This week we present a few of illustrator Donald McKay’s red and black historiated initials for the 1925 Grabhorn Press printing of Richard de Bury’s 'Philobiblon.' #TypographyTuesday Learn more here: https://t.co/1xma7xlNk2

By the skin of our teeth, we deliver the September edition of our 'Godey’s Lady Book' #FashionFriday. Learn all about 'Godey's' and this month's fashions here: https://t.co/dYumCzWfNQ

This week we present illustrations from 'Flora de la Real Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada,' a multivolume set of books based on the findings of José Celestino Mutis. Learn more here: https://t.co/1525iFccJ2

This week we present 'Late Summer Circa 1970' by Caryl Seidenberg, printed in 2013 at Seidenberg’s Vixen Press in Winnetka, Illinois in an edition of ten, signed by the artist/printer. Read all about it here: https://t.co/rqDBGJtF24

Yesterday's #Feathursday post is all about birds of Wisconsin shorelines with these bobolinks (and more) from 'Illustrirtes Thierleben Für Schule und Haus' by Dr. Hermann Dümling, published in Milwaukee by George Brumder in 1879. Learn more here: https://t.co/agvJpX3pJ1

Today we present hand-colored lithographic plates of flowers from 'Sämmtliche Giftgewächse Deutschlands...' by Eduard Winkler (Berlin: W. Natorff, 1832), Winkler’s seminal work on all the poisonous plants of Germany. Learn more here: https://t.co/Z96lrVEJYw #WednesdayBouquet

This week's #Caturday post was a little ditty on the “Kitty Cat” by the noted American composer William W. Gilchrist from St. Nicholas Songs, 1885. Learn more here: https://t.co/GZTNohNC8f

Please enjoy these few fine #Feathursday proverbs with engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn from 'A Collection of Proverbs from All Nations,' published by the Acorn Press in 1979. Learn more here: https://t.co/tKrjmrYbq8