Gentlemen's Sports - Wrestling Boxing The Eight Victorian Flowers by

The Eight Victorian Flowers by Paul Jerand (circa 1880) of London that we have reproduced in full color

Of all the botanical books published in England during the 18th and 19th Centuries

The English fascination with the ancient Italians was evident in a volume published in 1773 in which we have reproduced four of the charming Cherubs found here

Fountains were hand colored and reproduced

THE VICTORIAN ERA

Gentlemen's Sports - Wrestling Boxing The Eight Victorian Flowers bySPORTNG LIFE The 19th century ushered in a growing middle class in America with available leisure time and interest in many outdoor sports that previously had been the privilege of the wealthy. Outdoor Sports is a collection taken from various news weeklies of the 1800's, such as Harper's Weekly, and hand colored for our series of reproductions. Gentlemen's Sports are illustrations of boxing, wrestling and fencing, taken from a 1889 volume on the