Muggletonian Celestial Prints and Nature-Printed Ferns
I wonder how much a thing like this costs. (More about these Muggletonians.)


Nature-printed ferns were created in Victorian England by pressing actual specimens in lead, transferring the image by electrotype to a copper plate and printing and hand-coloring each one.
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Ooh, this The Nature-Printed British Sea-Weeds. Volume 1 (Rhodospermeae)., William Grosart Johnstone and Alexander Croall (Nature Printed by Henry Bradbury) has good scans.
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