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In 1630s Holland there was a frenzy over an exotic bloom newly imported from the East: the tulip

in the hope of engaging both our criticality and our dreams of affirmation

The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps: Poems of the Late Middle Ages by Bill Richardson

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Notes on Book Design by Derek Birdsall cocktails In 1630s Holland there wasNotes on Book Design by Derek Birdsall 4to. pp. xii, 236. profusely illustrated including some foldouts. bibliography. index. hardcover (very good front cover slightly bowed). New Haven: Yale University Press, [2004]. ISBN 10: 0300103476 ISBN 13: 9780300103472 ______________________________________________________________________________________________ In a career spanning more than forty years, Derek Birdsall has achieved renown as a leading book