Once upon a time, a couple of decades ago, there was a terrific notecard / art book / children’s book publisher called “Green Tiger Press”. They specialized in the publication of gorgeous cards and prints of children’s-book art of the late 19th and early 20th century — featuring artists like (for example) Arthur Rackham, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Edmund Dulac, and Johny Gruelle, among many others.
After a while, to my great annoyance, Green Tiger (and its beautiful catalogs) went away. But now the original family involved in the company have reconstituted their business as Laughing Elephant, and have also reacquired the Green Tiger Press imprint, under which they’re once again beginning to bring back into print old children’s books that have fallen by the wayside.
I’m so glad to see them back!
The coolest thing on their site at the moment, to my mind: the book of period luggage labels from the Golden Age of Travel, including forty die-cut, self-adhesive reproduction labels to slap on your own luggage. What better way to set aside your Samsonite from all the others on that luggage carousel…
