‘The Circulating Library’ personification illustration by George Spratt. Printed by Printed by G. E. Madeley and published by C. Tilt, Fleet Street, London ca. 1830.

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Pissenlit (French for dandelion) from ‘Etude de la plante’ by Maurice Pillard Verneuil, published in Paris by Librairie centrale des Beaux-Arts, c1900.

I saw this at my work Milwaukee Public Library.

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'Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds Which Pass the Summer in the British Islands' by James Edmund Harting, with engravings by Thomas Bewick. 2nd ed. London: Bickers, 1877.

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