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The Blue-Billed Ork, from 'The Google Book' by Vincent Cartwright Vickers, 1931 (colour litho)

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The Blue-Billed Ork, from 'The Google Book' by Vincent Cartwright Vickers, 1931 (colour litho)
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Vickers, Vincent Cartwright (1879-1939) / British
Location
British Library, London, UK
Medium
colour lithograph
Date
1931 AD (C20th AD)
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This excessively conceited bird spends all his time looking for starfish, jellyfish, and crabs, and when he sees one near him he just loosens his neck and lets his beak drop. You can't see any starfish or crabs in the picture because he isn't hungry just now. The Google Book is an illustrated book of children's verse by Vincent Cartwright Vickers. Originally published in 1913 by J. & E. Bumpus, Limited, London, at Vickers' expense in a limited edition of 100 copies, it was later issued in a trade edition by the Medici Society in London in 1931. It was republished by Oxford University Press in 1979. The coincidence of the name being the same as the corporation has stimulated comment

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