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Lot 59

MOORE (THOMAS)
The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland... edited by John Lindley... Nature-printed by Henry Bradbury, Bradbury and Evans, 1855[-1856]

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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MOORE (THOMAS)

The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland... edited by John Lindley... Nature-printed by Henry Bradbury, half-title, 51 nature-printed plates, all printed in colours by Bradbury & Evans, tissue guards, illustrations in the text, occasional spotting, short marginal tear repaired on preface leaf, early half morocco [Nissen BBI 1400; Pritzel 6405; Stafleu & Cowan 6275], folio (560 x 370mm.), Bradbury and Evans, 1855[-1856]

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Important "first English attempt at applying Nature-Printing to Botanical sciences" (Preface), the author explaining that previously, in order to convey "the necessary accuracy, the art of a Talbot or a Daguerre was insufficient, nor could they be represented pictorially until Nature-Printing was brought to its present state of perfection". The plates were executed by Henry Bradbury (1831-1860), who had learned the process whilst studying under Alois Auer at the Imperial Printing Office in Vienna.

Provenance: Julian Rar (1903), ownership inscription on half-title.

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