This collection of eight greeting cards features archival illustrations of colorful fauna, from butterflies to bullfrogs. These vintage images are printed in England on an uncoated, light cream 300 GSM Italian paper, which is recyclable, biodegradable, and FSC certified. Each greeting card is 170 mm x 120 mm (approximately 5” x 7”) and blank inside, individually wrapped in a compostable wrapper made from plants, and paired with a 100% recycled, 110 GSM kraft envelope.

Papillons
Butterfly greeting card with color plate adapted from the French encyclopedia Nouveau Larousse illustré: dictionnaire universel encyclopédique (1898). A key on the back of the card gives butterfly names.

Yellow Lepidoptera
Greeting card with butterfly illustration, adapted from Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge (1796–1805) by German entomologist Jacob Hübner. Royal Entomological Society library.

Honeybee
Honeybee greeting card illustrating twelve different species of bees swarming a flowery meadow, adapted from a colored etching by J. Bishop (1855), after J. Stewart.

Frogs and Toads
Greeting card illustrating two species of frog and toad, adapted from Biologia Centrali-Americana: Reptilia and Batrachia, Albert Günther et al. (c. 1903). Atelopus varius is also know as the Costa Rican variable harlequin toad, or clown frog; and Engystoma elegans is also called the elegant narrow-mouthed toad.

Oeufs
Greeting card with an egg identification chart, a color plate adapted from the French encyclopedia Nouveau Larousse illustré: dictionnaire universel encyclopédique (1898). A key on the back of the card gives the name of the animal associated with each egg.

Bull Frog
Frog greeting card with a colored etching of a bull frog by James Heath (1802).

Owls
Owl greeting card, adapted from A Description of the Nature of Birds, Jan Jonston (1650).

Stick Insects
Greeting card illustrating two stick insects, adapted from an illustration of stick insects by English entomologist John Obadiah Westwood (1805–1893). Westwood was a founding member of the Entomological Society of London and its president from 1852-1853. Royal Entomological Society library.