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• Year of Print: 1874
• Artist: David Wooster, F.R.H.S

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• Year of Print: 1874
• Artist: David Wooster, F.R.H.S

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• Year of Print: 1895
• Artist: T. Nelson and Sons

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• Year of Print: 1895
• Artist: T. Nelson and Sons

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• Year of Print: 1895
• Artist: T. Nelson and Sons

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• Year of Print: 1895
• Artist: T. Nelson and Sons

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• Year of Print: 1899
• Artist: Francis George Heath

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• Year of Print: 1863
• Artist: MRS Lankester

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• Year of Print: 1874
• Artist: F. Edward Hulme

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• Year of Print: 1874
• Artist: F. Edward Hulme

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• Year of Print: 1866
• Artist: Michel Lienard

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• Year of Print: 1800s
• Artist: Abraham Rees

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• Year of Print: 1896
• Artist: Edward Lloyd

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• Year of Print: 1896
• Artist: Edward Lloyd

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• Year of Print: 1896
• Artist: Edward Lloyd

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• Year of Print: 1896
• Artist: Edward Lloyd

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• Year of Print: 1880
• Artist: Encyclopedia Britannica

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The type foundry and print shop of old would create books, like the one this image was discovered within, to help customers and clients with their design choices. Naturally, these books were jam packed with useful illustrative elements that could be combined to create a final piece. Today, these books are extremely difficult to get a hold of. Especially those that were published in the late 1800s. They were not mainstream publications, they simply served as ‘catalogs’ and thus were only produced in small numbers. Fortunately, we were introduced to a collector who had precisely what we had been searching for for so long. After some costly negotiations, we’re very excited to be able to share the wonderful gems within.

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• Year of Print: Late 1800s
• Artist: Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry

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You’re looking at a beautiful piece of Japanese woodblock art from our collection of original 1881 prints by noted artist, Kono Bairei; Created for one of his best-known publications ‘one hundred birds’. Most of the bird species throughout this collection were native to Japan, with a few domesticated and some imported cage birds. Bairei was born and lived in Kyoto. He was apprenticed to the Maruyama printer Nakajima Raiso at the age of eight. He was a pupil of Shijo artist Shiokawa Bunrin and followed the Nanga school tradition. He established the Kyoto Prefectural School of Painting before opening his own studio to students and retiring from teaching.

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• Year of Print: 1881
• Artist: Kono Bairei

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You’re looking at a well preserved original plate from Johann Georg Heck’s “Iconographic Encyclopedia of Sciences, Literature and Art” published in 1851 by Rudolphe Garrigue in New York. We were extremely fortunate to acquire the full collection of illustrative prints from the series, which after many months of looking, proved to be very difficult!

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• Year of Print: 1851
• Artist: Johann Georg Heck

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You’re looking at a well preserved original plate from Johann Georg Heck’s “Iconographic Encyclopedia of Sciences, Literature and Art” published in 1851 by Rudolphe Garrigue in New York. We were extremely fortunate to acquire the full collection of illustrative prints from the series, which after many months of looking, proved to be very difficult!

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• Year of Print: 1851
• Artist: Johann Georg Heck

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You’re looking at a well preserved original plate from Johann Georg Heck’s “Iconographic Encyclopedia of Sciences, Literature and Art” published in 1851 by Rudolphe Garrigue in New York. We were extremely fortunate to acquire the full collection of illustrative prints from the series, which after many months of looking, proved to be very difficult!

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• Year of Print: 1851
• Artist: Johann Georg Heck

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Here we have a wonderful chromolithograph print from Heinrich Dolmetsch’s “Der Ornamentenschatz – Ein Musterbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus allen Kunstepochen”. Published by Stuttgart, Hoffmann. A celebrated collection of ornamental/decorative designs and artwork inspired by various geographical regions and movements of the 16th / 17th and 18th century.

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• Year of Print: 1889
• Artist: Heinrich Dolmetsch

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Here we have a wonderful chromolithograph print from Heinrich Dolmetsch’s “Der Ornamentenschatz – Ein Musterbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus allen Kunstepochen”. Published by Stuttgart, Hoffmann. A celebrated collection of ornamental/decorative designs and artwork inspired by various geographical regions and movements of the 16th / 17th and 18th century.

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• Resolution: 8223 x 11802 300dpi
• Year of Print: 1889
• Artist: Heinrich Dolmetsch

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You’re looking at a beautifully coloured british botanical lithograph print from the ‘Beautiful Leaved Plants’ series by Edward Lowe. These antique illustrations, printed in 1868, have lasted the test of time, and the colours are stunning.

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• Year of Print: 1868
• Artist: Edward Joseph Lowe

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An original Antique Plate scan from the National Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. Published by William Mackenzie in 1880. Click on the Artist’s name to see the full collection from this series!

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• Year of Print: 1880
• Artist: William Mackenzie

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An original Antique Plate scan from the National Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. Published by William Mackenzie in 1880. Click on the Artist’s name to see the full collection from this series!

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• Year of Print: 1880
• Artist: William Mackenzie

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An original Antique Plate scan from the National Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. Published by William Mackenzie in 1880. Click on the Artist’s name to see the full collection from this series!

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• Year of Print: 1880
• Artist: William Mackenzie

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This image was sourced from our original ‘Dekorative Vorbilder’ collection; A gorgeous collection of Art Nouveau decorative patterns, graphics and illustrations including plants, figures and animals. For draftsman, painters, graphic artists, decorators, sculptors and architects. Published in 1904 by Julius Hoffman, Stuttgart.

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• Year of Print: 1904
• Artist: Julius Hoffman

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Here we have an original vintage print from the Auguste Racinet L’ornement Polycrome (1870) series. One of the finest collections of decorative arts from the 19th century, refered to for inspiration by many modern creators. Many interesting and useful design elements are waiting to be explored in this one piece! The purpose of the fantastic reproductions in L’Ornement polychrome were to inspire an improvement of the decorative arts of its time.

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• Year of Print: Estimated 1873
• Artist: Auguste Racinet

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