Filip Peraić

Croatian illustrator and designer extraordinaire (or, should I say izvanredan)... 

 Via here

A-Brisket, A-Brasket...

Via here (Kathrin Koschitzki)

The Anne Wagner Book of Friendship

Anne Wagner’s friendship chronicle contains entries made between 1795 and 1834. The handcrafted cover includes its creator’s name and the book’s title: Memorials of Friendship. So beautiful - a fine example of the sweet sentimentality that is Victorian scrap-booking...

Willow-Grove, Oct. 6th, 1795. Madonna del Altana (artist)

Collages

Consecrated to Anteros by Carmenta

Friendship is the Joy of Reason

Alpha & Omega! (Elizabeth, Willow-Grove, August 16th, 1795) 

The striken Deer will weep

Mrs. A. Hemans

Memorials of Friendship. (cover page)

Via here

From the Library of...

Thought these book plates were particularly exquisite. Found via Flickr, belonging to the Pratt Libraries Ex Libris Collection...

Via Pratt Libraries Photostream

One City, Five Hours...

I am completely smitten with the ultra-enchanting artwork of Oliver Jeffers. Here is a series of sketches made for United Airlines. This is what the artist said:

I made a bunch of maps for the United Airlines inflight magazine. They are all geographically accurate...

Jeffers has also created charming 'sketchbooks' - From Sketch Book 1...

From Sketch Book 2...

And also this fabulous illustration for The Brooklyn Circus...

All via here

Botanicals...

I am definitely having a small (er, make that GIANT) love affair with illustration this week. I keep coming across such delicate, intricate examples. Like Herbiers by artist Joanna Concejo...

I found this gorgeous image via Pinterest, but have yet to find the artist or origin. Investigation pending...

And three (of the many) illustrations from Historia Naturalis Palmarum by F.P. Von Martius...

Via Bibliodyssey, Joanna Concejo and Pinterest