1959 Spurge laurel Daphne Mezereum botanical print wall english cottage Beautiful little antique chameleon and

Beautiful little antique chameleon and viper print from a 1916 natural history book entitled "Wildlife of the world" by Richard Lydekker

with one main illustration framed by many smaller ones depicting different types of callygraphy across the ages

Semi-glossy paper

This mousepad was made by scanning an original 1922 print at very high resolution

margins' sizes vary with each format

1959 Spurge laurel Daphne Mezereum botanical print wall english cottage Beautiful little antique chameleon andThis lovely vintage Daphne Mezereum print captures the bright pink flowers, red berries and olive like leaves perfectly. This plant has many common names: spurge laurel, mezereum, mezereon, February daphne or spurge olive. The print was extracted from an out of print 1959 French book "Dans nos forts" ("In our forests"), illustrated by Swiss painter Pia Roshardt. The French name of the species is Bois Gentil, which means "Gentle wood", a misleading