https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Creighton-EnglishShires/pages/274-Lutterworth-Bridge/

Mandell Creighton used (in the 1880s and 90s) to write a magazine column about places in England.

Here is #Lutterworth in 1879, engraved by Fred Whymper.

Famously, John Wycliffe was a vicar at Lutterworth Church.

When i processed this image with #GIMP last month for the Web site i thought i’d done it before; i since found it in the magazine, but i had not scanned it.

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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/SewardTravels/pages/000-frontispiece-william-h-seward/

William H. Seward (1801 – 1871) was Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869; after he retired he began writing an account of his travels, but after he died his wife Olive Risley Steward took over.

The paper was mottled with brown foxing; i used the mono mixer in #GIMP, reducing the green channel, to get rid of it.

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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-Maps/pages/8270009-british-isles/

1744, hand coloured.

Had a colour management problem with this one and may redo it, the blue came out much too strong. Not used to working with multiple monitors.

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