And here, for reference, is a great one by Alphonse Mucha, an artist whose work you’re going to recognize if you’ve ever fawned over a great J.H. Williams III layout or enjoyed a good Melinda Gebbie page. He did posters all over New York in the 1920’s, though he was personally Czech. More on him here; consider this clause a reminder to myself to put up some Virgil Finlay and Arthur Rackham so you know where greats like John Totleben and Charles Vess are drawing from, too.

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