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This piece is a study of Joseph Ducreux's self-portrait, "Le Discret." I worked on mastering his painting style and replicating it with soft pastels. Of course, instead of a portrait of Ducreux, I have replaced the Frenchman with a fox. With a sly…

Leaf 277 from the Tale of Melibee (Melibeus’s tale) from the first printed edition of the Canterbury tales. Consists of 29 lines printed in batarde type on both sides, with one 2-line initial in red at the 18th line down, on recto.

Worcester (?), West Midlands, England, circa 990 - 1010. Recto of leaf shown.

Providing almost one proverb for every day of the year, C. N. Eze offers several intriguing messages about wisdom, justice and morality. In the first 19 chapters of this pamphlet Eze discusses how "brotherhood" has both lagged and manifested itself,…