JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
I wanted to just take a moment to stop to appreciate and share this designing peep into the future. The image is located on the superior Bibliodyssey blog’s “Blackwork Prints” post (located here http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com.au/2010/03/blackwork-prints.html along with many more examples) and was created by the German engraver Valentin Sezenius in (improbably) 1623. It looks to me as though this piece of ornamental design was completed in a high style of the 1880-1910 period–very light, ethereal, flowing, spare. It is surprising to me, anyway, that this work is as old as it is–and yet, it is.
