Plants: 2,400 Royalty-Free Illustrations of Flowers, Trees, by Jim Harter

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By Jim Harter

This amazing choice of engravings offers designers and advertisement artists with an impressive sourcebook of Victorian-era plant photographs — all royalty-free. incorporated are 2,400 crisply exact illustrations of enormous quantities of vegetation — from lilies, lichens, mushrooms and marigolds, to poppies, fingers, maples, and mosses.

Selected from infrequent courses courting from the 1840s to the flip of the century, the illustrations surround a variety of plant species and classifications: backyard plants, cactuses, bromeliads, ferns, deciduous timber, evergreens, grasses, legumes, orchids, nightshades, and plenty of extra. All are pointed out with Latin or universal names and are prepared alphabetically via relations. additionally offered are really expert appendices on safe to eat meals, medicinal herbs, and crops utilized in ornament and in photograph layout, together with borders and motifs.

Created in the course of a interval whilst wooden engraving had reached its zenith and develop into a significantly sophisticated artwork, those most excellent royalty-free illustrations may be an necessary and inspirational source for artists and craftspeople operating in a number of components. the gathering also will satisfaction botanists, gardeners, and creditors of previous engravings, all of whom are guaranteed to treasure this tribute to the wonder and countless number of the plant kingdom.

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