1821 1887 moore thomas (8 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

2 Volumes. small 8vo. pp. xx, 592; 2 p.l., 593-1254, [34]ads. with half-titles. text in double columns. 20 steel-engraved plates by H.Adlard & numerous wood-engraved text illus. A nice set in original blind & gilt-stamped cloth. First Edition. Freeman 2260 (incorrect pagination & plate count).

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. xxvii, 423, [23 leaves], + 16(ads). with half-title. all but first plate with accompanying leaf of letterpress. 24 hand-finished colour plates drawn & lithographed by W.Fitch & printed by Vincent Brooks, each plate depicting 4 flowers. original cloth with gilt vignette on upper cover (covers bit spotted, upper rear joint partly split & frayed, repaired tear at foot of spine, light foxing to outer leaves, some pencil annotations). Freeman 2641.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (548 x 368 mm.): half-title, 51 nature-printed plates, all nature-printed in color by Bradbury & Evans under the direction of Henry Bradbury (variable light spotting throughout, a couple of plates shaved just into the image, several plates loose). Bound in contemporary green half-morocco gilt, gilt-edges (very light scuffing edges and covers, neat repairs to corners). PROVENANCE: from the Foljambe Collection removed from Osberton Hall, their sale, lot 38 FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF BRADBURY'S CHEF D'OEUVRE, THE FIRST FULLY-REALISED NATURE-PRINTED BOOK PUBLISHED IN BRITAIN. Henry Bradbury was the eldest son of William Bradbury of Bradbury & Evans, and had learnt of nature-printing (the technique of taking impressions from leaves, plants, or other life-forms and manufacturing a printing-plate from this impression) whilst studying at the Imperial Printing Office in Vienna, where Alois Auer, the director, had patented the process with his associate Andreas Worring in October 1852. Bradbury returned to London where he patented an improved version of the process (without, according to Auer, sufficiently acknowledging his indebtedness to Auer and Worring; Lindley does, however, record their contribution in his preface to this work). The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland was published in 17 monthly parts between June 1855 and 20 September 1856 and issued in book form in half morocco in 1856 at a price of £6.6s. The text by Thomas Moore (curator of the Chelsea botanic garden and co-editor of Gardener's Chronicle) was edited by the eminent botanist and horticulturist Lindley. Although The Ferns was preceded by Bradbury's A Few Leaves from the Newly-Invented Process of Nature-Printing (1854), which he considered an advertisement, The Ferns was the first substantial nature-printed books published in Britain, and is described in Lindley's preface as 'the first English attempt at applying Nature-Printing to Botanical Science'. Bradbury went on to publish W.H. Johnstone and A. Croall's The Nature-Printed British Seaweeds (London: 1859-60), and to plan a further four nature-printed works. However, the controversy with Auer continued to overshadow him, and Auer called Bradbury a liar and a dishonest drunk in print. It is not known how much this dispute affected Bradbury, but he committed suicide at the age of 29 by drinking soda water admixed with prussic acid in Cremorne Gardens. REFERENCES: BM(NH) III, p. 1345; E. Fischer, "Zweihundert Jahre Naturselbstdruck," in: Gutenberg Jahrbuch, vol. VIII, pp. 186-213, no. 89; Nissen BBI 1400; Pritzel 6405; Stafleu & Cowan 6275; G. Wakeman, "Henry Bradbury's Nature Printed Works," in The Library, vol. XXI, pp. 63-67. Book. …

Kupferstich v. Zschoch, 1819, 9 x 7 (H) Sein offizielles botanisches Autorenkürzel lautet T.Moore. Er war Kustos des Botanischen Gartens von Chelsea.