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Today we focus on Native American ways of scientific knowledge. This book is by SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry professor Robin Wall Kimmerer, 'Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants.' https://uwmspeccoll.tumblr.com/post/669033844496908288/indigenous-science-saturday-this-week-we-focus-on

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It’s #FinePressFriday! This week we bring you 'The Secret Sharer: An Episode from the Coast' by Polish-British author, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), with three etchings by Bruce Chandler (b. 1945), published by The Limited Editions Club, New York City,1985. https://t.co/iX0uY5s49h https://t.co/9bijzzaA8Y

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It’s #FinePressFriday! Today we bring you illustrations from The Invisible Man by English writer H.G. Wells, Illustrated by English artist, Charles Mozley, and published in 1967 by the Limited Editions Club, New York, in an edition of 1500. More: https://t.co/8PGpqxSr0c https://t.co/2Xd9jSlnPt

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For this week’s #PublishersBindingThursday post we’ve got more Shakespeare! This is As You Like It by William Shakespeare. This edition was published in 1900 by Dodd, Mead, & Company and is “newly embellished with sundry decorations by Will H. Low.” https://t.co/57GH2EEaBF https://t.co/5x1f2HpRZn

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Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, is volume 21 of the 37 volume The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare, published by the Limited Editions Club. Edward Gordon Craig illustrated this edition of Macbeth. Learn more: https://t.co/lQLCvoBE2N https://t.co/onkLBk5Q58

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It's #FinePressFriday! This edition of 'Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in two Acts and a Requiem,' by Arthur Miller was published with 5 etchings by Leonard Baskin by the Limited Editions Club in 1984. Learn more here: https://t.co/70rpzb98sX https://t.co/A2aYhqbzvG

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Shakespeare’s 'The Comedy of Errors,' illustrated by wood engraver John Austen, is the fourth volume of the 37 volumes of The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare, published by the Limited Editions Club from 1939-1940. Learn more: https://t.co/WOxI8kQbvO https://t.co/PeTF9IKMJC

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We say goodbye to 2022 with these somber wood-engraved landscapes and icebergs by Barry Moser from his 1983 Pennyroyal Press edition of Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus,' printed by master printer Harold McGrath. Learn more: https://t.co/60ZeQcfTVA https://t.co/ItgkxIpBim

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Special Collections holds various editions of three plays by Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, and The Bacchae. This edition was translated by Philip Vellacott, illustrated by Michael Ayrton, and published by The Limited Editions Club in 1967. Learn more: https://t.co/8o47E0pUps https://t.co/SUCuAsFqWs

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'The Castle of Otranto' by Horace Walpole is generally regarded as the first Gothic novel. The first edition was published anonymously in 1764 by Thomas Lowndes in London. The images are color prints done through a process referred to as à la poupée, an early intaglio technique. https://t.co/tG8dn7D6lB