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    The Story of an Ostrich An Allegory and Humorous Satire in Rhyme.
    The Story of an Ostrich An Allegory and Humorous Satire in Rhyme.
    The Story of an Ostrich An Allegory and Humorous Satire in Rhyme.
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    The Story of an Ostrich An Allegory and Humorous Satire in Rhyme.

    By Judd Isaacs and Edmund Nolcini

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Story of an Ostrich An Allegory and Humorous Satire in Rhyme. - Judd Isaacs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Story of an Ostrich, by Judd Isaacs

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      Title: The Story of an Ostrich

      An Allegory and Humorous Satire in Rhyme.

      Author: Judd Isaacs

      Illustrator: Edmund Nolcini

      Release Date: September 25, 2011 [EBook #37530]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF AN OSTRICH ***

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      THE

      STORY OF AN OSTRICH

      AN ALLEGORY

      AND

      HUMOROUS SATIRE

      IN RHYME

      Interpreted and Illustrated

      BY

      Edmund Nolcini

      PUBLISHED BY THE

      HAND PRINT BOOK FOLK,

      BACK BAY, BOSTON, MASS.

      COPYRIGHTED, 1903,

      BY THE

      HAND PRINT BOOK FOLK, BOSTON, MASS.

      ALL THE ILLUSTRATIONS HERE SHOWN, INCLUDING THE TITLE PAGE, ARE REPRODUCED FROM PEN DRAWINGS MADE EXPRESSLY FOR THIS BOOK, AT GREAT EXPENSE, AND ALL PERSONS ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED NOT TO REPRODUCE THEM WITHOUT PERMISSION

      PUBLISHER'S PREFACE

      Whatever other merit may be discovered in this book, the publishers desire to call attention to the fact that, as a whole, it is a production altogether unique in a field of endeavor where something new is being constantly sought, but seldom found.

      The poem is entirely hand-printed in large and legible letters, designedly kept free from ornate fancies and, therefore, particularly easy to read. The hand-printing accords with the adjoining illustrations as angular and machine-made type never does, giving a pleasing and harmonious effect to the entire page, a result not to be obtained by the ordinary art of the printer.

      Attention is also called to the illustrations of the volume. Their merely mechanical arrangement upon the page is in itself unusual, we might almost say unknown to the reading public, while the imaginative story that the artist has told in the illustrations that he has contributed, is not only of the real and material world, but also of powers behind the scenes, which offer the motives and even supply the cues of most, if not

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