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Asphodelaceae - Asphodelus albus From: Dictionnaire de botanique by Henri Ernest Baillon and others. Paris, Hachette, 1876, volume 1. Chromolithograph by Portail after Auguste Faguet (sheet 230 x 310 mm). € 60
Auguste Faguet produced
delicate botanical wood-engravings of great accuracy for the works of
Henri Ernest Baillon. For the Dictionnaire de botanique, published
from 1876-1892 in 34 fascicles, he also made 32 fine chromolithographed
plates, which came out with each fascicle without additional text (2
contained no plate).* Nissen BBI 61 + I p. 150; Stafleu & Cowan 253. www.meemelink.com | index | Asphodelaceae |