Illustrations of fossil plants: being an autotype reproduction of selected drawings
A plate-numbered atlas of fossil plants issued in 1877 in London by Longmans, compiled from selected drawings by the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, a mining society, for scientists studying coal-measure flora. The pages show pale grey ink drawings of fern-like fronds and leaflets, some as single sprigs and others as pinnate branches, each labelled and set on a vignette of blank paper. A designer might draw on their clean botanical outlines, sparse layouts and tonal shading for natural-history or scientific-plate motifs.
