**BUY 3 PRINTS OR MORE AND GET 25% OFF, AUTOMATICALLY APPLIED AT THE CHECKOUT**A plate from a 1800's Disbound Art Book Source: John Leighton Published in 1881 The print size is approx. 11.75 x 9.5 inches Unmounted. Condition: 142 year old antique in good condition on thick quality paper, with only small blemishes and slight foxing. There is no text to the reverse of this tinted plate. Please take a good look at the listing photos as they provide the most accurate view of condition. Your print will be very carefully packaged and is backed with acid free card, then starting with a clear, protective, sealed sleeve and then placed snugly in a high quality micro-fluted cardboard envelope with added stiffener and do not bend labels attached so you can have a high degree of confidence your print will arrive safely. Please do get in touch if you have any questions and I will do my very best to reply within a few hours. John Leighton (1822 - 1912) John Leighton (pseud. Luke Limner) was an English artist notable for his book illustrations and book cover designs. His talent for design found early expression in the publication "Suggestions in Design ... for the Use of Artists and Art Workmen" (1852). This was a work that expounded Leighton's values and beliefs with regard to the history of design. He used the ornaments and designs repeatedly in the thirty years after its publication with regard to illustrations within books, and for many hundreds of drawings for book cover designs. Leighton was one of the first to study book plates, and encourage their collection, and in the early 1890s helped in the establishment of an Ex-Libris Society, of which he was the Vice-President. As a publisher, he produced a journal for the society called the Book-Plate Annual.