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WARNER, Robert, Benjamin Samuel Williams, & Thomas Moore.
The Orchid Album,
comprising coloured figures and descriptions of new, rare, and beautiful orchidaceous plants. The coloured figures by John Nugent Fitch.
Description
11 volumes 4to., 527 fine hand-coloured lithograph or chromolithograph plates (with tissue guards) by John Nugent Fitch (one double-numbered folding plate in volume I), some with tinted backgrounds; chromolithograph plate (Cypripedium Charlesworthii) from another work inserted in volume X. Original brown fine diagonal-rib cloth, gilt lettered spines and front covers, spines and front covers with floriate panelling in blind & black (back covers stamped in blind), untrimmed, endpapers yellow coated or with a pale grey or brown floriate pattern. Bookseller's ticket of David Bryce & Son, Glasgow. Rear joint of volume I split at foot but sound, scattered foxing to letterpress, plates clean and fresh. A very good set.
Bibliography
Nissen 2107; not in Plesch or Pritzel.
Stock ID:95949