Archival Restoration
Each original plate is scanned at 600 DPI before a conservator lifts foxing, ink bleed, and old coffee rings — leaf by leaf, never painted over.
Fig. 2 — Stipple & aquatint, corrected by hand.
Plate I — The Title Page
A Folio of Botanical Wonders, Restored Leaf by Leaf
The Herbarium Press unbinds hand-inked plates from Victorian folios, restores them at archival fidelity, and presses them once more — annotated after the scholarly fashion, ready for your study wall.
Fig. 1 — Polypodium aureum, after Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. XII, 1794.
Plate II — Features
Curated as a Collector Would Keep Them
Every specimen in the archive is treated as a folio in itself: unbound, examined, and returned to the press with its provenance intact.
Scholarly Annotation
Every plate carries its Latin binomial, its first description, and its collector's provenance, set in the typographic fashion of the original folio.
Fig. 3 — Nomenclature after Linnaeus, 1753.
Fine-Art Pressing
Giclée on 310gsm cotton rag with oxide inks, colour-matched to the hand-tinted originals — or delivered print-ready for your own press.
Fig. 4 — Impression upon wove paper.
Plate III — Method
From Folio to Your Frame
I
Consult the Index
Choose your specimen from 2,400 catalogued plates — ferns, mosses, orchids, and medicinal flora — each with its provenance noted.
II
The Atelier Restores
Conservators re-ink faded stipple work and hand-tint where the original colourist's brush has faded, then annotate the plate anew.
III
Pressed & Dispatched
Digital folios arrive within the hour; fine-art pressings are wrapped in glassine and shipped flat within a fortnight.
Plate IV — Correspondence
Letters from Our Readers
The Belladonna plate arrived wrapped like a museum loan. My students now argue over stipple technique the way they once argued over pixels.
I framed the fern folio for my study and have since ordered eleven more plates. The annotation alone is worth the subscription.
Plate V — The Catalogue
Subscriptions & Single Plates
Single Plate
$12 once
- One restored plate of your choosing
- 600 DPI TIFF & web-ready JPG
- Latin annotation card
- Personal licence
Most Selected
Collector's Folio
$29 monthly
- Four new plates each month
- Commercial licence included
- 20% off giclée pressings
- Priority requests from the archive
Atelier Patron
$79 monthly
- Full access to 2,400 plates
- Quarterly fine-art pressing posted
- Private requests with the conservators
- Licence for teams of five
Plate VI — Appendix
Questions from the Correspondence
May I use the plates in commercial work?
Single plates carry a personal licence. The Collector's Folio and Atelier Patron tiers add a commercial licence for print, textile, and editorial use, with no per-impression fees.
In what formats are the plates delivered?
Every plate arrives as a 600 DPI, colour-profiled TIFF and a web-ready JPG. Giclée pressings on 310gsm cotton rag ship flat in glassine within a fortnight, worldwide.
What if a plate disappoints on arrival?
Return any pressing within thirty days for a full refund, no correspondence required. Digital plates are refunded within fourteen days provided they have not been printed.
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Plate VII — Colophon
Commence Your Folio
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