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Elaborately bound in light red morocco with gilt edges, four raised bands and gold lettering and tooling on spines, decorative floral borders with green and beige flowers on front and rear covers and spines, surrounded by double thin gold lines and single broad gold line. This decorative floral pattern in gold is repeated on inside front and rear covers with color plates mounted in center surrounded by the same gold line patterns around outside edges and single line around plates. Endpapers are marbled in green, red, and gold. Even the raised spine bands have decorative tooling.

John Gould, a British zoologist active throughout the mid-19th century, is known chiefly for the over 3000 hand-colored lithographs he produced throughout his career. The first volume of one of his most successful publications, The Birds of Great Britain (1808), can be found in Special Collections & Archives at Loyola's Monroe Library and via the Louisiana Digital Library at the link above.

Photograph of novelist Elizabeth Spencer and her cat and front cover of her book “The voice at the back door” recently accrued as part of the Patrick Samway S.J. Southern Writers Book Collection.

Print blocks and pinbacks from the Louis J. Twomey, S.J. Papers. #printing #pinbackbuttons #marchonwashington #twomey #loyno #archives #socialjustice #civilrights #votingrights #jesuitvalues https://www.instagram.com/p/CXhJtn9pWIK/?utm_medium=tumblr

Published in 1828, Deutschlands wildwachsende Arzney-Pflanzen (Germany's Wild Medicinal Plants) contains hand-colored lithographs of medical plants, flowers, and fruits. Following the illustrations are the Latin name and German description for each plant. In the introduction to the volume, Mann states that his goal in publishing the work was two-fold: to present a collection of realistic drawings of medicinal plants for the use of doctors, veterinarians and pharmacists who would not otherwise have the time or opportunity to study the plants in nature, and to give a simple and precise description of the plants along with where they may be found and when they are in season. Mann's illustrations transcend their original, utilitarian purpose of assisting medical professionals, however; they are works of art.

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#Feathursday brought to you by John Gould’s Birds of Great Britain (1873).

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