lindley henry (4 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 112 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.26 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Good. 4to. [4 pp.] Folded Sheet, Letterpress with Deckled Edge, Near Fine. Facsimile menu, 12mo. Folded Sheet, Near Fine, illustrated with menu, also present.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars, 1855. First edition. Large Folio (22" x 14 1/2", 560mm x 370mm). With 51 nature-printed plates, all printed in color by Bradbury & Evans with tissue guards. Bound in brown half morocco over brown cloth boards. On the spine, gilt, five raised bands with title gilt to the second panel. Marbled endpapers. Gift inscription to the top recto of the half-title page "Julia Rar from Edward Rar 1903." Extremities and raised bands worn, with scratching and discoloration to the back board. Foxing and offsetting throughout. This is "the first English attempt at applying Nature-Printing to Botanical Sciences," according to the editor John Lindley in the Preface. Henry Bradbury (1831-1860) was the eldest son of William Bradbury of Bradbury & Evans. He learned nature-printing (the technique of taking impressions from leaves, plants, and other life-forms and making a printing-plate from this impression) while studying at the Imperieal Printing Office in Vienna. Alois Auer, the director, had patented the process with his associate Andres Worring in October 1852. Bradbury returned to London, where he patented an improved version of the process. The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland was first issued in 17 monthly parts between June 1855 and September 1856. The text by Thomas Moore (1821-1887), curator of the Chelsea botanic garden and co-editor of Gardener's Chronicle, was edited by eminent botanist and horticulturalist John Lindley (1799-1865). Bradbury committed suicide at age 29. He left behind two unrealised nature-printing projects on fungi and trees.