Editors of Abbeville Press - Böcker

Mosaics Magnifiedfeatures details of four Greek and Roman mosaics, highlighting the incredible precision with which the craftsmen placed their many thousands of tesserae.Each set includes 16 notecards (four different designs) and 17 envelopes, in a presentation-quality box.

The Detailed Notes are luxury notecards that feature a striking close-up of a great artwork on the front, and the entire artwork on the back. Each set is housed in a presentation-quality box and each card measures 133 x 110 mm.This set, The Trees of North America, reproduces details of four exquisite hand-coloured plates from François-André Michaux's classic North American Sylva, by such masters of botanical art as Pierre-Joseph Redouté and Pancrace Bessa.

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and more. Add some extra savour, zest, or zing to your correspondence with these quality notecards, each of which is illustrated with a different colour engraving of a herb or spice from 18th and 19th century sources. The perfect stationery for the cook, gardener, or gourmand in your life. Each card measures 133 x 110 mm.

A boxed notecard set featuring beautiful prints of medicinal plants.Healing Plants features 16 hand-coloured plates from Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737–39). Blackwell, a talented artist with a passion for the natural world, published her herbal as a means of financial support after her husband landed in debtor’s prison, and it quickly became a valuable reference for doctors and apothecaries. These notecards — featuring plants like aloe, chamomile, and St. John’s Wort — are the perfect stationery for herbalists and all lovers of botanical illustration; each card measures 133 x 110 mm.

A quality notecard set featuring great Japanese prints by masters like Hokusai and Hiroshige.These notecards (each card measures 133 x 110 mm) illustrate 16 outstanding Japanese prints from the world-class collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The front of each card features a striking detail of a print, while the back shows the entire print along with a caption. All the best-loved themes of Japanese art are represented, including landscape, nature, and fantasy. Presented in a handsome box, these notecards are the perfect stationery for all art lovers and Japanophiles. Published as a companion to the book Pictures of the Floating World: An Introduction to Japanese Prints ISBN 9780789214393.

Join the Impressionists en plein air with this elegant notecard set.These notecards (each measuring 133 x 110 mm) feature sixteen appealing landscape paintings by the Impressionists, from a sun-dappled garden by Monet, to a festive picnic by Renoir, to a harvest field by Pissarro, to a beach scene by Cassatt. Housed in a sturdy and attractive box, this notecard set is the perfect stationery for anyone who loves great art or beautiful scenery.Artists included: Gustave Caillebotte, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase.

A high-quality boxed notecard set featuring beautiful and noteworthy birds from Audubon’s Birds of America.These vibrantly printed notecards (133 x 110 mm) reproduce 16 different birds from John James Audubon’s iconic masterwork, from the majestic Great Blue Heron to the colourful Carolina Parakeet. Housed in a presentation-quality box, they will be the perfect stationery for every bird lover.