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Greeting card illustrating a woman dressed in books, the perfect card for a book lover
Circulating Library

Circulating Library

Regular price £3.50

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SKU: PB2527

Build your own set — first 10 cards on any order for £30

Vintage-style greeting card for book lovers. Printed in England on a light cream, 300gsm carbon-neutral Italian paper, made from 100% recycled post-consumer waste.

Adapted from ‘The Circulating Library’, George Spratt (1830). Hand-coloured aquatint, one of a series of drawings of people composed of objects which represent their personalities or professions. The woman is fashioned from runs of multivolume works with botanical illustrations. Science Museum® licensed by SCMG Enterprises Limited. © Board of Trustees of the Science Museum.

All our greeting cards are 170mm x 120mm (approx. 5” x 7”) and blank inside, individually wrapped in a compostable wrapper made from plants, with a 100% recycled, 110gsm kraft envelope.

We're taking a short break from 1–8 September. Retail orders will be dispatched when we return on Wednesday 9th September. Trade orders will be dispatched as usual.

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