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Vintage Green Tiger Press Notecard with Poem Insert, "He Claimed for His Bride" by Florence Harrison

A princely figure greets his love at a gate in the springtime. Fruit trees and tulips are in bloom, and bluebirds of happiness fly about the couple.

Size: 5.25" x 7" (13.3 cm x 17.8 cm)

I have gone into my archives and unearthed a stash of vintage Green Tiger Press ephemera that I will be listing.

Here is a delightful image by Florence Harrison, who was commissioned to produce illustrations for a sumptuous edition of Christina Rossettis poems published by Blackie and Son in 1910.

This full-color image has been printed and tipped (glued) onto high-quality laid paper stock. The interior of the card is blank. The back of the card contains descriptive text giving details about the illustration in the lower left-hand corner. A matching envelope is included, as well as a poem insert page with a translation of a German medieval lyric (click on the last photo to zoom). The poem is reproduced from hand-calligraphy.

This image was exactingly reproduced by the legendary Green Tiger Press in La Jolla, San Diego County, California, in-house on a four-color Heidelberg printing press in the early 1980s: this is an authentic vintage notecard displaying all the attention to detail for which the Green Tiger Press was justifiably famous.

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I worked for the Green Tiger Press for a short time when I first moved to California and was an avid collector of their images from children's books. When the business was sold in the mid-1980's, I went to their closing sale and stocked up on books, notecards, bookplates, and postcards.

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