This selection of over 100 plates from a rare turn-of-the-century catalog provides graphic designers, artists, and craftspeople with a wealth of eye-catching spot illustrations and motifs. Originally compiled by a noted French typography foundry, this versatile archive includes over 3,200 clear, detailed illustrations of an enormous range of subjects: fruits, flowers, plants and trees; musical instruments, religious figures, carriages and sailing vessels, sporting events, farm animals and equipment, household furnishings, hats, shoes, parasols and other clothing items; military figures in full garb, and much more. Here also are ornamental borders, elaborate mortised cuts, banners, wreaths, and a host of other line art ideal for framing, embellishing, or calling attention to printed matter. Painstakingly reproduced here, these charming, copyright-free cuts from a bygone era will provide artists and illustrators with a nearly inexhaustible supply of copyright-free graphics awash in period ambience.