Catalogue Title № I
Floral Fantasy Deck

The Queen of Hearts. A face card from the Deck

Title plate from A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden.
Title plate ❧ Plate I
Frontispiece from A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden.
Frontispiece ❧ Plate II
Title № I · Inaugural Issue

Floral Fantasy Deck

A playing-card Compendium drawn from A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden, after Walter Crane.

$36.00 Thirty-six dollars
300 Hand-numbered Decks
  • StockThree-hundred-gsm cotton stock, smooth finish, suitable for table play.
  • FinishLinen-grain emboss; printed in five colours including a soft gilt accent.
  • ArtTwenty-four plates from Crane's A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden, 1899, restored for offset reproduction.
  • IssueHand-numbered to three hundred Decks; each box bears the issue number in the Press's hand.
  • BoxTuck-box of uncoated paper-board, stamped in brass-foil with the Press's mark.
Materials
Cotton-stock playing cards, 300 gsm, with a linen emboss. Box of 350-gsm uncoated paper-board, foil-stamped. Inks vegetable-based where possible.
Dimensions
Cards 63 × 88 mm (poker stock). Tuck-box 67 × 92 × 22 mm. Deck weight approximately 95 grams; with box, 120 grams.
Posting & Returns
Posted within a fortnight, in a paper-board mailer. Region-specific posting is calculated at the cart. Returns accepted within thirty days if the seal is unbroken.
Description

On the Deck, in detail.

The Floral Fantasy Deck is a working pack of fifty-two cards drawn from Walter Crane's 1899 volume A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden. Each face card takes its figure from one of Crane's plates, set behind a line of his verse. The suit sign on each face card is set as a small painted tile: one tile per Jack, two per Queen, three per King. The numbered cards run in plain watercolour pips, no two alike. The Ace is the first plate of the book. One pip, much paper.

  • Fifty-two cards in the four suits, drawn from the plates of Crane's A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden.
  • Face cards each set over a Crane plate with a line of his verse; suit signs painted as small ceramic tiles.
  • Hand-numbered to three hundred; each box bears the impression number in the Press's hand.

The Deck plays as any standard pack. The first impression has been hand-numbered to three hundred Decks. When the impression is gone, no second printing will be struck.

Every Deck carries the impression number on its tuck-box, written by hand at the Press. Yours is assigned on dispatch and bears the date of binding.

From the Source

Two plates from the volume.

Title plate from A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden, Walter Crane, 1899.
The Title Plate. Walter Crane ❧ 1899 ❧ Plate I
Rosamond's Bower from A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden, Walter Crane, 1899.
Rosamond's Bower. Walter Crane ❧ 1899 ❧ Plate III