Circulating Library

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.