About the Volumes:
Beautiful Leaved Plants (full title: Beautiful Leaved Plants: Being a Description of the Most Beautiful Leaved Plants in Cultivation in This Country, to Which Is Added an Extended Catalogue...) is a stunning guide to the most exquisite and beautiful plants in cultivation in the UK at the time (c. 1861). From their physical characteristics to their cultural history and significance, this book offers a rich and detailed portrait of these magnificent specimens. The extended catalogue at the end of the book is a valuable resource for botanists and plant enthusiasts alike.
About the Author:
Edward Joseph Lowe FRS FGS FRAS FLS (11 November 1825 – 10 March 1900) was a British botanist, meteorologist and astronomer, who published papers on a wide variety of subjects, including luminous meteors, sunspots, the zodiacal light, meteorological observations during the 1860 solar eclipse (at Fuente del Mar, near Santander), conchology, ferns, grasses and other plants.
He was an independently wealthy naturalist and member of the Royal society, who also published other works such as A History of Ferns, British and Exotic, in 1856-60 & A Natural History of British Grasses in 1862.
About the Artist:
Alexander Francis Lydon (1836/1837 – 1917) was an Irish-born British watercolor artist, illustrator and engraver of natural history and landscapes. He worked for Benjamin Fawcett the printer, to whom he had been apprenticed from an early age. He collaborated on a large number of works with the Rev. Francis Orpen Morris who wrote the text.
About the Plates:
This lovely work was published in London, by Groombridge and Sons. From about 1855 on, Groombridge was the principal publisher for the renowned Benjamin Fawcett, the greatest color printer of the 19th century. Fawcett pioneered a system of wood block engraving from multiple wood blocks that resulted in vivid finely colored works such as this marvelous book. This process was called chromoxylography (color wood engraving). A History of Ferns was Fawcett's first large project that was almost entirely color printed, with some hand finishing in watercolor.
Condition:
Appears to be in good condition for a 163-year-old print. The brilliant coloring & exquisitely fine detail work appears to remain sharp & brilliant as the day it was printed. Typical slight age-toning & character for a print this old. Artifacts to the paper along the edge where it was bound into its volume which don't impinge on the image. Please peruse the detailed photos. Printed on creamy wove paper.
These prints are very old & may have minor imperfections expected with age, such as some typical age-toning of the paper, spots, text-offsetting, artifacts from having been bound into a book, etc. Please examine the photos & details carefully.
Text Page(s): This one comes without a text page. (Please note, the scan of the title page is included for reference, it's not part of this listing...)
About This Beautiful Plant:
Shipping: Multiple prints combine into one USPS Flat-Rate envelope. If you'd like to combine & need more time to choose, please send a message & we'll do our best to oblige. If you're assessed multiple shipping for one combined package, we'll endeavor to refund any overage asap.
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