About Us
Thank you for visiting oldimprints.com, a gallery of antique prints, antique maps, vintage books, vintage magazines and ephemera. Our business is driven by our love of the combination of great graphics and historical insight which is intrinsic to so much vintage paper. Our stock ranges in date from the 1600s to the 1950s - great design is not limited by date! I have been in business since 1981, and have thrived on (or survived!) the many changes in the book and antique world. Much of our business is web based, but we also have a showroom open by appointment in S.E. Portland, Oregon, USA which many of our longtime and new customers enjoy visiting; we also do several shows.
About the word "imprints" in our name:
Imprint refers to the impression made, during the printing process, from the block on the paper, whether the resulting impression is an image or text. Having started out as Nineteenth Century Prints, as our range of inventory widened to books, ephemera and magazines we morphed to Nineteenth Century Imprints to Old Imprints and finally to oldimprints.com as we broadened the timeline of our stock and as our business sales emphasis changed!
On this website you will find:
* antique prints
* antique and vintage maps (with a specialty of pictorial maps)
* a select stock of old books, especially illustrated (children's, travel, natural history, literature etc.)
* ephemera (such as old travel brochures, merchandise catalogs etc.)
* vintage magazines
Order with our secure order system; each item you order is backed by our
Customer Satisfaction Guarantee.
Thank you for visiting our website! We hope you will enjoy it and return often. We are always pleased to have your feedback about our website.
Elisabeth Burdon
