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The fore-edge painting on the Cary Collection's Poems by the late William Cowper show the poet at work in his garden at Orchard Side in Olney, Buckinghamshire, in the company of one of his pet rabbits, either Puss, Tiney, or Bess.

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An image of the cover of Alonso de Molina's 1555 Aquí comiença un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana.

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An image of the title page of Alonso de Molina's 1555 Aquí comiença un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana.

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An image of the binding of Alonso de Molina's 1555 Aquí comiença un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana.

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An image of a page from Alonso de Molina's 1555 Aquí comiença un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, showing dictionary entries starting with B.

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An image of a page from Alonso de Molina's 1555 Aquí comiença un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, showing dictionary entries starting with E.

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An image of a Wells style Acorn press.

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An image of a Tufts style Acorn press.

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Each of the Cary Collection's three volumes of George Ellis' Specimens of the Early English Poets has a fore-edge painting showing a foxhunting scene with some sort of comic mishap. Here a rider has flipped over this horse. Let's hope he wasn't…

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A fore-edge painting of Windsor Castle adorns this edition of John Evelyn's biography of Margaret Blagge Godolphin (1652-1678), a courtier in King Charles II court known for her extraordinary beauty.
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