Vintage Botanical Prints: Eighth Edition Paperback – November 4, 2018

Printed on quality paper. Vintage look. Suitable for framing

The illustrations in this book are beautiful and there are a lot for the price. Be aware that if you are trying to make a botanical wall display with these images that the borders and background coloring differ and are often not even the same on opposite sides of the same image. You would need to be creative to make it work. The pages did come out of the book easily without any ripping or tearing.

This is one of those slightly "generic" Dover-style compendia of vintage graphic design. It is a very slim and lightweight paperback, yet full of beautiful vintage illustrations of plants and flowers, originally done, I'd say, in the 1800's (?) The images are provided utterly without any commentary or description. They had been limned with a certain simplicity, which is great for my purposes: trying to reduce plant shapes to their fundamental geometry for the purpose of creating Art Nouveau and Art Deco patterns in color within Adobe Illustrator. I like this book. Note to scrapbook/découpage/collage artists: the color images are printed only on one side of the page, so feel free to cut them up, with no image bleed-through. Each page is also suitable for framing, as/is.

Perfect vintage prints for framing!

For a small price I got a ton of illustrations to pick from. This is good if you want some wall art, but don’t want to spend $10 for every print you buy.Remember, don’t expect the paper or the print itself to be stellar quality, think about how much your paying for so many prints. It’s good enough and cute enough to add some color to my walls.I’m going to order some of their other books.

I’ve framed these in vintage frames and they look awesome.

I wanted to frame them in square frames and the vintage look was perfect for the area I put them!

This is not the distributors fault I just want to start off with that. The paper quality of this print book os abysmally bad, they feel and look like someone bound copies made on cheap copier paper. Super disappointed. Knowing the quality of the paper I can go on assumption having worked with printing that the color fastness won’t stand up to exposure hung up in a frame, hope I am wrong.