Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

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Warner, Robert | His series on orchids "on a scale ... commensurate with their natural grandeur"

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July 21, 06:44 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Warner, Robert and Benjamin Samuel Williams

Select Orchidaceous Plants. [First and Second Series]. London: Lovell Reeve & Co., 1862-65; 1865-75


2 volumes, folio (445 x 325 mm). Half-title in each volume, 40, 39, and 21 hand-colored lithographed plates by and after W.H. Fitch and James Andrews on tabs; a few plates lightly browned, some light spotting and soiling, a few tiny edge tears, longer closed tear to Plate XXXVI (Second Series), not affecting image. Full contemporary black pebble-grain cloth, covers paneled in blind; rebacked to styles, corners bumped, extremities rubbed, some tape repairs to spines where splitting. 

[With]: Select Orchidaceous Plants. [Third Series]. London: Lovell Reeve & Co., 1881. 21 (of 24?) plates (445 x 325 mm). Hand-colored lithographed plates by and after W.H. Fitch and James Andrews; spotting and browning. Original printed wrappers, all in contemporary card portfolio with cloth ties; wrappers curled with some closed tears and chips, staining to portfolio, with spine splitting with some loss.


Robert Warner was a British orchid grower at Chelmsford. He began this series because he claimed there had been no recent publication illustrating orchids "on a scale at all commensurate with their natural grandeur." 


REFERENCE:

Great Flower Books, p. 149; Nissen BBI 2108; Stafleu TL2 16.742


PROVENANCE:

Robert Meehan Scully (bookplates to front free endpapers)

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