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Trilliaceae - Paris quadrifolia
From: English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants by James Edward Smith.
London, C.E. Sowerby, 1836, 2. edition, volume 3, plate 576. Hand-coloured
engraving by James Sowerby (sheet 128 x 218 mm). Slight foxing. Text enclosed in photocopy.€ 30
One of the most celebrated of all British floras is Sowerby’s
English botany. This periodical publication, issued in 267 numbers, and
published in thirty-six volumes between 1790 and 1814, contains 2,592
beautifully coloured illustrations of plants most of which are drawn and
engraved by James Sowerby. The plates are accompanied by descriptive letterpress
written by the eminent botanist James Edward Smith, … (Henrey II p. 141). The
plates of the second or small edition of 12 volumes are mostly restrikes of the
plates of the first edition, arranged in sytematic order and including
supplementary plates. Most of the plates thus bear a double enumeration and are
often not so fully coloured as those of the first edition. James Sowerby was the
first of several members of this family who became noted as authors and
illustrators of books on natural history.
* Nissen BBI 2225; Great flower books p. 76; Henrey 1369; Stafleu & Cowan 12.221.
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Trilliaceae - Paris quadrifolia
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.€ 45
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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Trilliaceae - Trillium erectum
From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others.
Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1855, volume 10, plate 990. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 160 x
240 mm). Text enclosed.€ 55
The founder, publisher and part-editor of this lavish Belgian periodical was Louis
van Houtte, the propietor of the largest nursery of its time on the
continent. It appeared monthly for almost 40 years and was published by
his own printing office in the middle of the gardens, the Horto van
Houtteano. All the plants shown were for sale in his nursery and include
many exotics. The work is notable for the craftmanship of the Belgian
lithographers Severeyns, Stroobant and De Pannemaker, who had mastered the art of colour-printing from stone.
* Nissen BBI 2254; Great flower books p. 84; Stafleu & Cowan 15.921.
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Trilliaceae - Trillium erectum album
From: The botanical cabinet, consisting of coloured delineations of plants from all countries by Conrad Loddiges.
London, C. Loddiges & Sons, etc., 1832, volume 19, plate 1850. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 145 x 207 mm).
Text missing.€ 60
A total of 20 volumes of this periodical were published from 1817-1833. The
beautiful engravings are by George Cooke from drawings by George Loddiges,
William Loddiges and others. They depict plants growing in the Hackney nursery,
founded by Conrad Loddiges and bearing his name. The establishment became famous for its many rare plants.
* Pritzel 5559; Dunthorne 187; Nissen BBI 2228; Great flower books p. 85; Stafleu & Cowan 4914; SABLIT 765; Johnston 806.
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Trilliaceae - Trillium erythrocarpum
From: Curtis’s botanical magazine; or flower garden displayed.
London, 1830, volume 57, plate 3002. Hand-coloured engraving by Joseph Swan after
William Jackson Hooker (sheet 139 x 227 mm). Text enclosed.€ 65
The first and most important botanical
magazine made up of 'figures' of plants and short descriptions. Provides a
storehouse of exotics, paralleling the indigenous plants … (Hunt). A
delightful work pictorially, never excelled as a periodical, most carefully
coloured and a source of lasting interest and information (Dunthorne). Started
by William Curtis in 1787 publication still continues.
* Pritzel 2007; Dunthorne 88; Nissen BBI 2350; Great flower books pp. 83-84; Hunt 689; Henrey 472; Stafleu & Cowan 1290.
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Trilliaceae - Trillium grandiflorum
From: Flora. Afbeeldingen en beschrijvingen van boomen, heesters, éénjarige planten, enz.,
voorkomende in de Nederlandsche tuinen by Heinrich Witte.
Groningen, J.B.
Wolters, (1868), plate 43. Chromolithograph by G. Severeyns after Abraham
Jacobus Wendel (sheet 224 x 302 mm). Slight foxing. Text enclosed.€ 130
Heinrich Witte, a Dutch gardener, was assistant curator and head-curator at the
Leiden botanical garden from 1855-1898. The decorative colour-plates depict the
most attractive Dutch garden plants, shrubs and trees of its time, finely
lithographed by G. Severeyns of Brussels after paintings by Abraham Jacobus Wendel.
* Pritzel 10.366; Nissen BBI 2174; Stafleu & Cowan 18.090; Landwehr 213.
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Trilliaceae - Trillium grandiflorum
From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others.
Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1855, volume 10, plate 991. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 158 x
240 mm). Text enclosed.€ 50
The founder, publisher and part-editor of this lavish Belgian periodical was Louis
van Houtte, the propietor of the largest nursery of its time on the
continent. It appeared monthly for almost 40 years and was published by
his own printing office in the middle of the gardens, the Horto van
Houtteano. All the plants shown were for sale in his nursery and include
many exotics. The work is notable for the craftmanship of the Belgian
lithographers Severeyns, Stroobant and De Pannemaker, who had mastered the art of colour-printing from stone.
* Nissen BBI 2254; Great flower books p. 84; Stafleu & Cowan 15.921.
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Trilliaceae - Trillium stylosum - Trillium nervosum
From: The botanical cabinet, consisting of coloured delineations of plants from all countries by Conrad Loddiges.
London, C. Loddiges & Sons, etc., 1832, volume 19, plate 1860. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 145 x 207 mm).
Text missing.€ 60
The beautiful hand-coloured engravings of this periodical are by George
Cooke from drawings by George Loddiges, William Loddiges and others. They depict
plants growing in the Hackney nursery, founded by Conrad Loddiges and bearing
his name. The establishment became famous for its many rare plants. A total of
20 volumes were published from 1817-1833.
* Pritzel 5559; Dunthorne 187; Nissen BBI 2228; Great flower books p. 85; Stafleu & Cowan 4914; SABLIT 765; Johnston 806.
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