#Warner orchid album manual
Great Flower Books, p.80 Nissen BBI 2107 Stafleu & Cowan TL2 6282. Benjamin Samuel Williams (2 March 1822 24 June 1890), English orchidologist and nurseryman in London, known mainly for his horticultural notes on orchids in publications such as The Orchid Grower's Manual (London 1852, 7th ed. His original drawings for The Orchid Album are in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. Orchid Album: Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants, Volume 1. Its appearance was hailed with great satisfaction in horticultural circles throughout the world, and it numbers among its subscribers nearly all lovers of Orchids and many of our leading and most influential horticulturalists." The illustrator, John Nugent Fitch (1840-1927), was the nephew of the equally-prolific botanical artist Walter Hood Fitsch. Benjamin Samuel William's obituary, appearing in volume 9, recollects the intentions of this magnificent work: "In 1881 he commenced his magnum opus, the Orchild Album, which 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. Burrage (bookplate presented to) Massachusetts Horticultural Society.įIRST EDITION OF THESE BEAUTIFUL PLATES. II with spine split, some hinges cracked). 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 (scattered browning and spotting as usual, few plates with remnants of tissue guards adhered to image, generally clean and colors fresh.) (Occasional browning and spotting to text.) Original black morocco gilt, gilt-lettered and decorated on spine, edges gilt, by Bayntun (hinges and spines worn, vol. Williams, at the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 1882-1897.ġ1 volumes, 4 o (302 x 235 mm). The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants. The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants. Great Flower Books, p.80 Nissen BBI 2107 Stafleu and Cowan 6282.WARNER, Robert, Benjamin Samuel WILLIAMS and Thomas MOORE. His original drawings for The Orchid Album are in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. Objekt: The orchid album, comprising coloured figures and descriptions of new, rare, and beautiful orchidaceous plants / Conducted by Robert Warner. Benjaminm Samuel William's obituary, appearing in volume 9, recollects the intentions of this magnificent work: "In 1881 he commenced his magnum opus, the Orchild Album, which 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. (Scattered browning and spotting, generally clean and colors fresh.) Original brown pictorial cloth, gilt-lettered on cover and spine, edges gilt (hinges and spines lightly worn, volume 2 with spine split, some endpapers renewed).įIRST EDITION OF THESE BEAUTIFUL PLATES. (Occasional browning and spotting to text.) 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. Williams, at the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 1882-1897.ġ1 volumes, 4 o (304 x 240 mm).
The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants.
WARNER, Robert, Benjamin Samuel WILLIAMS and Thomas MOORE.
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