1790 Common Gordius (Hair Worm) F. P Nodder Book Plate Engraving bottle shape vase or a camp counselor

or a camp counselor

But what a thing they made

and symbolic

This is about the loveliest little watercolor of the sea that I think I’ve ever seen

many times

1790 Common Gordius (Hair Worm) F. P Nodder Book Plate Engraving bottle shape vase or a camp counselorThis 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