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Colchicacea - Colchicum autumnale From: Dictionnaire de botanique by Henri Ernest Baillon and others. Paris, Hachette, 1891, volume 3. Chromolithograph by Portail after Auguste Faguet (sheet 230 x 310 mm). Slight foxing. € 65
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 & p. 150; Stafleu & Cowan 253.
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