Book ID: 115656
Warner, Robert, Benjamin Samuel Williams and Thomas Moore
The Orchid Album. 11 volumes. 1882-1897. 820 lithographic plates by John Nugent Fitch, mostly coloured by hand, some are chromolithographs. Large-4to. - Gold edged publisher's original binding.
11 volumes, quarto (303 x 243mm). 528 lithographic plates by and after John Nugent Fitch on 527 sheets, partly hand-colored, partly color-printed, plates 9/10 a double-page plate, uncolored portrait of Williams in vol. 9. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and black, edges gilt
This publication was projected with the idea of supplying a demand for illustrations of Orchidaceous plants, with botanical descriptions of the plants figured, and notes on their cultivation.
Remarkably good and clean copy. Upper part and lower part of spine of volume 1 partly loosened.
Nissen BBI, 2107; Stafleu & Cowan TL2, 6282.
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