1790 Common Gordius (Hair Worm) F. P Nodder Book Plate Engraving bottle shape vase many times

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culminating with reason #20: "Most objections are only excuses

The wooden crosses--one stained green on both sides

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1790 Common Gordius (Hair Worm) F. P Nodder Book Plate Engraving bottle shape vase many timesThis just struck me as rather poetic and wonderfully lyrical two looping knots of worm at top and bottom, and then one outstretched across the middle. The text underneath reads London, England Nov. 1790, by F. P Nodder & Co. No. 15 Brewer Street. Frederick Polydore Nodder (1770 c. 1800) was an English illustrator, engraver and painter, who illustrated George Shaw's periodical The Naturalist's Miscellany, which is where this bookplate came from, and