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Printer’s Cuts

The pictures a printer kept to hand: a ship for a sailing notice, a stagecoach for a timetable, a hat or a boot for the shop that sold them. Around them run farm animals and menagerie beasts, eagles and allegories, small oval vignettes and twelve almanac zodiac panels. The 1889 cuts add pointing hands, carriages, chess pieces and Father Christmas.

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