books, cats

By József Faragó (1866-1906) hungarian graphic (http://www.mke.hu/lyka/02/e2p145k1.jpg) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons

This delightful bookplate was designed around 1900 by the Hungarian painter and illustrator Jozsef Farago (1866-1906). Fargo spent time studying and working in Munich and Paris; Art Nouveau was developing at those places and in this time, and I see a simple form of it here.