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Another 1880 Cassell's illustration.

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Brief rant on book-breaking: The above print is a chrome lithograph single print removed from an 1880 Cassell's Standard Book of Poultry. I don't know what the whole book is worth exactly, often times people will get them for around a hundred dollars. Sometimes people will remove the individual prints and sell them for around a hundred dollars a print. But it ruins the book. I won't buy individual prints like this, especially when there are modern reproduction lithos that you can purchase in any size for wall art that are inexpensive.
 
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So that got me to thinking, (a dangerous endeavor in and of itself), about these illustrations of the Standard. So, I looked up a modern APA for Polish and starting on page 152, the black and white illustration was no better. It was about the same and definitely taken from an older plate. I have always thought that most of the Standard illustrations are a little exaggerated and overwrought.
 
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