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A little robin from Eleazer Albin's 'A Natural History of (1738-40). With over 300 hand-coloured engravings by Albin & his daughter Elizabeth, this was the first British work of to feature hand-coloured plates.

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I'm planning to make lots of scratch art engravings in this style for 2019 conventions.

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For the month of November, we present the wood engravings, photogravures, and chromolithographs from the November 1904 issue of the early 20th-century periodical 'Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review.' See more here: https://t.co/kTmm6y0B0l

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Charles Bell is perhaps best remembered for describing the effects of paralysis on the 7th cranial nerve, "Bell's palsy". He was also an exceptional artist as these engravings demonstrate, from ‘Anatomy of the Brain’ (1802)

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Paul Nash 1925 woodblock engravings for L.Archier Leroy’s “Wagner’s Music Drama of the Ring”

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See more wood engravings and learn about the book here: https://t.co/4ZnbDh6Cqh

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Halloween is next week, but we're already getting in the spooky spirit! What better way to celebrate than library ghost stories? This Fine Press Friday we present 'Morgan Library Ghost Stories,' edited by Inge Dupont and Hope Mayo, with atmospheric wood engravings by John DePol.

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A little Great Horned & Snowy motivation from 'Natural History of Animals' by Sanborn Tenney and Abby A. Tenney, illustrated with five hundred wood engravings, and published in New York by Charles Scribner & Co. in 1869. More owls here: https://t.co/VsGuonkwXl

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Do the funky chicken and check out these wood engravings of wild and domestic landfowl from 'The Farmer’s Stock Book' by the noted Illinois horticulturalist and farm-publication author and editor Jonathan Periam! More chickens here: https://t.co/pMWfEOMkB7

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By publishing his "Deutschlands Flora" in a minute format (measuring only 13-15 cm), Sturm was able to make his German flora, containing 2472 engravings, less expensive & thus available to as many people as possible. Find it in https://t.co/5ivqMo7EOW

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For this week's we present wood engravings, photogravures, and chromolithographs from the October 1904 issue of the early 20th-century periodical 'Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review.' More here: https://t.co/dDOBhRPcrr

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At the Worcester Art Museum there’s some armor with real cool engravings, plus a big grandfather clock. Of course, I immediately thought of a mechanical mouse helmet that incorporated both of them....you know, as you do.

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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

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Zoology of New Holland ([1793]-1794) describes & illustrates animals from Australia with text by George Shaw and hand-colored engravings prepared by James Sowerby. Explore this in via : https://t.co/RTCRMIFmZ3

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Valentin Le Campion (1903-1952), wood engravings

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Please enjoy these few fine 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

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LEARNING FROM MASTER REMBRANDT
(ink+watercolor versions from three engravings, 1998)

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The periodical was edited and published by the British landscape designer William Robinson, with some color prints & engravings based on the work of artist Henry G. Moon. 'Flora and Sylva' is a title from a donation of botanical & horticultural books from Lynde Bradley Uihlein.

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For the first Wednesday in August, we present wood engravings, photogravures, and chromolithographs from the August 1904 issue of the periodical 'Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review for Lovers of Gardens, Woodland, Tree or Flower." Learn more here: https://t.co/rWoxFX4MvW

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