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Decorative Sunday: A 19th Century Trade Periodical

Today we highlight images from Decoration in Painting, Sculpture, Architecture & Art Manufactures, a periodical published in London through the 1880s (later under the title Decoration and Art Trades’ Review). Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington printed this 1881 edition full of images, articles, and occasional poems out of their Fleet Street offices. Sampson Low (1797-1886), who founded the firm in 1848 as Sampson Low, Son & Co, had a career in bookselling, circulating libraries, and publishing that spanned the better part of the 19th century. The company published its last work in 1969.

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--Amanda, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Updated Call for Submissions: Potcake Chapbooks

Updated Call for Submissions: Potcake Chapbooks

I am always keen to read and consider rhymed and metered verse that has already been published. There are several chapbooks that are jostling in the queue for completion and publication: Travels and Travails (travel) City! O city! (urban life) Just a Little Naughty Portraits Unpleasant Various Heresies (religion) Lost Loves The Horror of Spring! (seasons) and there are more; but the last one,…

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Potcake Chapbooks: new Call for Submissions

“Dogs playing” by noeltock

Potcake Chapbooks (named for the stray dogs of the Bahamas and Caribbean) come together when enough good poems–in a diversity of forms with a diversity of attitudes and by a diversity of poets–have crossed my path and appear to have some common theme or topic. The next two are likely to be on Murder and on Translations… but they are close to full already.

After that–if…

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Potcake Chapbooks: Call for Submissions

Potcake Chapbooks: Call for Submissions

Potcake Chapbooks (named for the stray dogs of the Bahamas and Caribbean) come together when enough good poems – in a diversity of forms with a diversity of attitudes and by a diversity of poets – have crossed my path and appear to have some common theme or topic. The next three are likely to be on Modern Troubles, on Wordplay, and on Translations… but they are close to full already.

“Dogs…

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