What is the definition of an antique or rare print?
Most of our prints are at least 100 years old and some are almost four hundred years old. They were printed in limited numbers on hand made paper (in many cases) and hand-colored. This is in contrast to mass-produced prints made today using high-speed presses (offset lithography). The antique prints that we sell fall into the category of Decorative prints which generally means that they are prints that originated as bookplates from rare books. In some cases, they are one of only a few hundred that were printed and so they are very rare indeed.
