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WARNER (ROBERT) AND BENJAMIN SAMUEL WILLLIAMS The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants, 11 vol. (complete), FIRST EDITION, B.S. Williams at the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 1882-1893 image 1
WARNER (ROBERT) AND BENJAMIN SAMUEL WILLLIAMS The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants, 11 vol. (complete), FIRST EDITION, B.S. Williams at the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 1882-1893 image 2
WARNER (ROBERT) AND BENJAMIN SAMUEL WILLLIAMS The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants, 11 vol. (complete), FIRST EDITION, B.S. Williams at the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 1882-1893 image 3
WARNER (ROBERT) AND BENJAMIN SAMUEL WILLLIAMS The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants, 11 vol. (complete), FIRST EDITION, B.S. Williams at the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 1882-1893 image 4
WARNER (ROBERT) AND BENJAMIN SAMUEL WILLLIAMS The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants, 11 vol. (complete), FIRST EDITION, B.S. Williams at the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 1882-1893 image 5
WARNER (ROBERT) AND BENJAMIN SAMUEL WILLLIAMS The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants, 11 vol. (complete), FIRST EDITION, B.S. Williams at the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 1882-1893 image 6
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WARNER (ROBERT) AND BENJAMIN SAMUEL WILLLIAMS
The Orchid Album, FIRST EDITION, 1882-1893

10 – 20 March 2025, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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WARNER (ROBERT) AND BENJAMIN SAMUEL WILLLIAMS

The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants, 11 vol. (complete), FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 528 chromolithographed plates by and after John Nugent Fitch on 527 sheets (plate 9/10 double), additional hand-colouring and gum arabic to several, tissue guards, contents to volumes 2-9 working loose, publisher's decorative cloth stamped in gilt and black, g.e., rubbed, one joint split, [Nissen BBI 2107; Great Flower Books, p.80; Stafleu TL2 6282], 4to, B.S. Williams at the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 1882-1893

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Illustrated by fine plates by John Nugent Fitch, the Orchid Album 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... 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" (Orchid Album, obituary to Williams, vol. 9).

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