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oldbookillustrations:

There lieth a wreck on the dismal shore
Of cold and pitiless Labrador

Jasper Cropsey, from Poetry and pictures from Thomas Moore, London, 1858.

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compendium-of-beasts:

Royal boa. (1802)

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renardnoir:

Fox writing with a quill pen. Mason, J. 1852

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foxrogers:

equalnight:

John Cody

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jomobimo:

Screech Owl, 1897

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cavetocanvas:

John James Audubon, The Bird of Washington (Great American Sea Eagle), 1827

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