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Anthericaceae - Anthericum liliago - Phalangium liliago From: Herbier de la flore française by Louis Antoine Cusin & Edmonde Ansberque. Procédé de reproduction dit phytoxygraphique. Publié sous le patronage du Service du Parc et des Jardins de la ville de Lyon. Lyon, 1876. Nature-printing with hand-coloured flower detail (sheet ca. 260 x 375 mm). Marginally partly slightly stained. Without text as issued.
€ 55
The plates
are reproductions of actual specimens and give the appearance of the plants very
accurately. The flower details are separately drawn at the bottom of most plates
and hand-coloured. "… for though the "photoxygraphic" plates of the twenty-five
volumes of the Herbier de la Flore Française of Louis Antoine Cusin
(1824-1901) and Edme Ansberque (1828-1905), published at Lyons between 1867 and
1876, are of considerable botanic importance, they are aestetically
disappointing" (Blunt & Stearn p. 142). However the plants are carefully
selected and nicely arranged.* Fischer, E.: Zweihundert Jahre Naturselbstdruck 96; Nissen BBI 444 & I p. 248; Blunt & Stearn p. 142. |
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Anthericaceae - Anthericum ramosum - Phalangium ramosum From: Herbier de la flore française by Louis Antoine Cusin & Edmonde Ansberque. Procédé de reproduction dit phytoxygraphique. Publié sous le patronage du Service du Parc et des Jardins de la ville de Lyon. Lyon, 1876. Nature-printing with hand-coloured flower detail (sheet ca. 260 x 375 mm). Marginally partly slightly stained. Without text as issued.
€ 55
The plates
are reproductions of actual specimens and give the appearance of the plants very
accurately. The flower details are separately drawn at the bottom of most plates
and hand-coloured. "… for though the "photoxygraphic" plates of the twenty-five
volumes of the Herbier de la Flore Française of Louis Antoine Cusin
(1824-1901) and Edme Ansberque (1828-1905), published at Lyons between 1867 and
1876, are of considerable botanic importance, they are aestetically
disappointing" (Blunt & Stearn p. 142). However the plants are carefully
selected and nicely arranged.* Fischer, E.: Zweihundert Jahre Naturselbstdruck 96; Nissen BBI 444 & I p. 248; Blunt & Stearn p. 142. |
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Anthericaceae - Johnsonia lupulina Leguminosae - Burtonia scabra + Burtonia villosa From: The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches by William Robinson (editor). London, 1886, Januari - June, volume 29, plate 531. Chromolithograph (sheet 217 x 280 mm). Text enclosed.
€ 80
"All gardeners owe an infinite debt
of gratitude to William Robinson - founder of The Garden (1871-1927) and
Flora and Sylva (1903-05), and author of The English Flower Garden
(1883, etc.) and other works - who helped to break the tyranny of formal bedding
and, like Ruskin, drew attention to the beauties of the wild garden. Among the
artists whom he employed was Henry Moon, who struck a new and personal, if not
entirely healthy, note in botanical illustration. …" (Blunt & Stearn). From 1880
Henry George Moon’s plant portraits dominated the pages of The Garden, a
popular horticultural publication. Renowned for his lifelike paintings of
orchids, Moon appealed to Robinson because of his ability to sketch flowers in a
graceful, naturalistic style. The subtle colourings of his paintings and simple
arrangement of flowers were very unlike the more stylised renderings that
appeared in competitors’ publications. The beautiful colour-plates were
lithographed and printed by the Belgian firm G. Severeyns and its successor J.L.
Goffart, notable for their craftmanship.* Blunt & Stearn pp. 239-240; Nissen BBI 2264; BPH 391-10. |
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Anthericaceae - Paradisea liliastrum - Paradisia liliastrum From: Herbier de la flore française by Louis Antoine Cusin & Edmonde Ansberque. Procédé de reproduction dit phytoxygraphique. Publié sous le patronage du Service du Parc et des Jardins de la ville de Lyon. Lyon, 1876. Nature-printing with hand-coloured flower detail (sheet ca. 260 x 375 mm). Marginally partly slightly stained. Without text as issued.
€ 55
The plates
are reproductions of actual specimens and give the appearance of the plants very
accurately. The flower details are separately drawn at the bottom of most plates
and hand-coloured. "… for though the "photoxygraphic" plates of the twenty-five
volumes of the Herbier de la Flore Française of Louis Antoine Cusin
(1824-1901) and Edme Ansberque (1828-1905), published at Lyons between 1867 and
1876, are of considerable botanic importance, they are aestetically
disappointing" (Blunt & Stearn p. 142). However the plants are carefully
selected and nicely arranged.* Fischer, E.: Zweihundert Jahre Naturselbstdruck 96; Nissen BBI 444 & I p. 248; Blunt & Stearn p. 142. |
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