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Victorian – A Journey in Motherhood Journal

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You and I – A journey in Motherhood

High Quality. Professionally printed hard cover Memory book/ Journal. In celebration of Mothers Journey through Motherhood.
Contains 80 high resolution full color illustration depicting mothers and their children from Edwardian and Victorian ladies publication. The first engravings date from 1809 the last from 1890. With each page the fashion engravings move us a year ahead in time showing us nearly 100 years of Motherhood in all its glorious stages – from new baby to sending your daughter away in marriage. Mothers and grandmothers doing all the usual things we do with our children today – going to the parks, vacations, celebrations, movies, sickness and happiness. There are pages depicting moms with daughters and sons.
There are plenty of blank pages to record your special memories.

CAN BE ORDERED FROM ALL MAJOR BOOKSTORES AS WELL THROUGH THEIR SPECIAL ORDER DESKS.

REFER TO ISBN 9781775065418.

Lost Elegance

I love history, art and fashion. The ladies and gentleman's periodicals from from the 1700's and 1800's are my absolute favourite. My family owns large antique collection containing such publications. It rivals the collections of such prestigious institutions as the Metropolitan and Smithsonian museums. I hope to have it uploaded for viewing one day soon. The cards I offer for sale are recreated using the coloured engravings contained in those books. Each Image is carefully scanned in order to be cataloged, Few of us know that the original engravings, called fashion plates, were hand coloured for each and every copy of the magazine. Many such plates are destroyed every day when they are cut and framed. I wish to offer a quality alternative to our desire for antique prints in order to preserve as many as I can. We use the proceeds from our sales to create an archive of such fashion plates. I admire the Elegance-both of the homes and dresses of the times long gone, and wish to bring a little bit of it back to our busy, often stripped of glamour lives.