EditorialOrnamento delle belle & virtuose donne, page 19 (verso), 1554, Woodcut, Overall: 7 1/2 x 5 7/8 in. (19 x 15 cm), Published by Matteo Pagano, Italian, 1515-1588, Venice, bound by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, British, active London after 1821. From top to bott...
EditorialSpring snowflake, Leucojum vernum, and daffodil, Narcissus poeticus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrat...
EditorialSpring snowflake, Leucojum vernum. Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1787.
EditorialSpring snowflake, Leucojum vernum. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendal's German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871.
EditorialWater snowflake, Nymphoides indica (Limnanthemum humboltianum). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1856.
EditorialSummer snowflake, Leucojum aestivum. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendal's German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871.
EditorialFlower fairies of snowflake, Leucojum vernum, in bonnet and cape with chauffeur, and daisy, Bellis perennis, with long stole of flowers at the end of a party. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Walter Crane from A Flower Wedding, Cassell, London...
EditorialSpring snowflake, Leucojum vernum. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1856.
EditorialBlotched snowflake volute, Cymbiola nivosa (Snowflake volute, Voluta nivosa). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, ...
EditorialSnowflake crystals under the microscope. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for hi...
EditorialGegebuta or water snowflake, Nymphoides indica. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900.