Abbeville Notecards – serie

Audubon's Feathers features four details from John James Audubon's Birds of America, showing the incredible precision with which his engravers translated his drawings to the copper plates.Each set includes 16 notecards (four different designs, each card measures 133 x 110 mm) 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.

A high-quality boxed notecard set featuring the intricate designs and brilliant colours of medieval Celtic knotwork.These notecards (each measuring 133 x 110 mm) feature 16 different details of dazzlingly complex knotwork from medieval Celtic art, including famous manuscripts like the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels; stone carving; and jewellery. Housed in a sturdy and attractive box, they will be the ideal stationery for anyone captivated by the beauty and mystery of Celtic knotwork.

Mythical creatures abound in this enchanting notecard set.These fantastical notecards feature 16 different mythical creatures, from fire-breathing dragons and mischievous yokai to bewitching mermaids and regal unicorns. Housed in a sturdy and attractive box, this notecard set will delight all lovers of fantasy and mythology. Each card measures 133 x 110 mm.

A boxed set of whimsical little notecards depicting New York “wildlife” enjoying the city’s delicacies. In this high-quality boxed set of 16 102 x 76 mm notecards (four each of four designs), a happy rat enjoys a slice of pizza and a pretzel, and his pigeon friend savours a bagel and a carton of lo mein. These cards, featuring artwork by Andrey Kokorin from the best-selling Almanac of New York City, are the perfect way to send your correspondents a taste of the Big Apple.

This notecard set, Fruit: Selections from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection, reproduces 16 individual watercolours — including an apple, an avocado, an orange, and a strawberry. These vibrant and lifelike watercolours were commissioned by the US Department of Agriculture as a national register of fruits, featuring varieties from the United States and around the world.This scrumptious notecard set comes housed in a presentation-quality box with each card being 133 x 110 mm in size.