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. The Coloured Figures by John Nugent Fitch, F.L.S. Vol. XI only. First Edition

Author: Warner, Robert and Henry Williams

Small Folio (9.75" x 12.125") Full tan polished calf with decorative blindstamp and fancy gilt rule framing covers. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title on gilt framed red leather to second compartment, gilt vol# to gilt framed green leather in fourth compartment, heavy gilt decorative frames and centered gilt devices to al others. Marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Covers with old stains. Spine's head and foot chipped with loss (see pic). Corners chipped with loss (see pic). Tender hinges front and back with biodegradation to head and foot of spine, inside rear cover, and on corners. 49 chromolithographs on 48 plates, as called for. Foxing towards front and rear of text block, small spots on fore-edge within text. The plates all appear FINE except for a few with finger smudges and/or mild foxing to fore-edge (see pic). Prior ownership in ink and stamp to title page (see pic).

From a prior listing: "The 528 plates of the Orchid Album were painted and lithographed by John Nugent Fitch, a master illustrator of orchids. Orchids were all the rage in late Victorian England and on the continent and several orchid societies thrived. Benjamin Samuel Williams published the album as a subscription series, with the idea of meeting a demand for orchid illustrations, descriptions and notes on their cultivation. The series reached 11 volumes and was enthusiastically received by horticulturists and orchid enthusiasts. Nearly 400 of the original watercolors are in the Natural History Museum in London. John Nugent Fitch was the nephew of renowned botanical artist Walter H. Fitch. Both men drew for Curtis's Botanical Magazine"-website of George Glazer Gallery, New York

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