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“The Sea-Fight” — woodcut print by Dwiggins, c. 1907. (For sale at 50 cents each.)

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2021-09-08

I believe in angels 😇😇😇

The Opening of the Seventh Seal,
Single leaf from an Apocalypse blockbook in Latin on paper, Germany c. 1465.
Fragment from Schreiber’s edition IV, folio 10.

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2021-08-04

Travels with Ptolemy!

1540 hand-colored Cosmography with a side order of (putative) cannibalism.
One of my favorite woodcuts in

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2020-11-18

For we have some wonderful hand-coloured prints from ‘Plantarum, arborum, fruticum, et herbarum effigies’ published in Frankfurt in 1652.

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2020-04-29

For we have some wonderful hand-coloured prints from ‘Plantarum, arborum, fruticum, et herbarum effigies’ published in Frankfurt in 1652.

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2020-02-26

“What are the crying sins of this our State”
Barebones woodcut illustrating a Royalist broadside poem, ‘An Elegie and Epitaph upon ... Lord Francis Villars’ printed in London, 1648. Unique copy held

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2019-11-20

R is for Rosa. Everything is coming up roses in this copy of The first and seconde partes of the Herbal of William Turner Doctor in Phisick [615.3 TUR].

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2019-09-18

Relatively simple, but very emotionally evocative woodcuts by Vivien Gribble from the Macmillan & Co., 1926, large paper edition 'Tess of the D'Urbevilles: a pure woman faithfully presented’.
300 or so were printed on large paper.

K.T.C.36.b.14

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2019-06-05

What better convergence of days than and Here's a table straining under the weight of desserts, from a 1712 edition of François Massialot's 'Nouvelle instruction...' https://t.co/JYAAydlBz6

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2019-05-29

It's Datura (also known as Jimsonweed, Locoweed, Devil's snare, and Hell's Bells) appears in this 16th century herbal by Cristóbal Acosta; via and . See more here: https://t.co/eFXZsfoNNZ

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2018-09-26

First edition of William Wyrley's The True Vse of Armorie, 1592, with hand-coloured coats of arms https://t.co/eBMCzq9Ws1

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2017-08-16

Feast your eyes on this week's from a 1712 edition of a book on jam-making https://t.co/JYAAydlBz6

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2017-02-09

Beaver, from Topsell's History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents (1658) http://t.co/GkYIoLBMaT

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2015-10-01