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Nature Printed

One species a month, as the Victorians drew it and as we understand it now.

Join the waitlist First issue planned for November 2026
Hand-coloured engraving of an arched earthstar: a round spore sac on a pale four-pointed star, puffing a grey cloud of spores, above a torn brown cup in grass. Plate 198.
Plate 198, Lycoperdon fornicatum James Sowerby, Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms (1797–1809). Now called the arched earthstar, Geastrum fornicatum.

In the booklet: three voices

As it was written

The original description, set as it was printed, with its capitals and italics left as they were.

What we know now

A short modern note: what the Victorians got right, what they got wrong, and how the species is doing today.

Where to see it

Months to look, habitats, places in Britain and conservation status

In each envelope

  • The plate

    A full-size reproduction of the hand-coloured plate, loose and on heavy card, ready to frame.

  • The booklet

    Sixteen pages: the original description as it was written, and what we know now.

  • The field leaf

    Where and when to see the species in Britain that month.

Where the plates come from

From the great illustrated works of the Georgian and Victorian naturalists, now in the public domain:

  • Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, from 1787
  • English Botany, by James Sowerby, 1790–1814
  • and other works on birds, insects, lichens and sea creatures

We favour the overlooked: county floras, lichens and marine life, rather than the prints you’ve already seen on every poster.

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We’ll email you when subscriptions open in November, with prices and the first species.

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