F. Edward Hulme - Familiar Wild Flowers (Complete Set With 240 Colour Plates) - 1898
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Familiar Wild Flowers (Complete Set With 240 Colour Plates) by F. Edward Hulme; a six‑volume illustrated hardback edition (ca. 1898) in English, comprising 972 pages with 240 colour plates.
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Complete Set with 240 Beautiful Botanical Coloured Plates
Complete set, series 1 to series 6 inclusive. This work contains thorough descriptions of each wild flower, as well as their habitats and uses in medicine. Each series with 160 pages, however, the last series has an extra 12 pages of ‘Index of English Names’, ‘Index of Botanical Names’, Table of Botanical’, and ‘Orders and General Represented in the Work’.
Each book has forty colour plates printed on thick cards, more like finished paintings than prints. Several black and white in-text illustrations. Illustrated capital letter to each chapter head. The quality and charm of the plates together with a more than usually informative letterpress made the work an immediate success and it was several times reissued in various formats.
Published by Cassell And Company, Limited, London, ca.1898. Publisher’s original dark blue textured boards, with gilt lettering pieces to spines. Top page edges gilt.
Book Dimensions: 20 x 14 and Number of Pages (6 Series): 972
Nice publication with weight over 3 kg without packaging
Condition
The books are beautiful bound, designed and illustrated. External covers in nice shape, slightly faded and with light wear to corners, and to head and foot of spines. Internally; in very good condition. No names or inscriptions. Inner hinges are very good, and pages are tightly held at the gutter. Light foxing marks to the margin of some pages, and page edges. The plates are clean and bright (Nice Firm Set) (Please see pictures).
Frederick Edward Hulme
"Frederick Edward Hulme (1841-1909), naturalist and artist, was born in Staffordshire England, the son of Frederick William Hulme, a landscape painter. In 1870 he was appointed art and drawing master at Marlborough College, which was around the time he published Familiar Wild Flowers, his best known work. Familiar Garden Flowers was published later in his career, and the plates reveal the same level of skill and beauty exhibited in his earlier works."
Complete Set with 240 Beautiful Botanical Coloured Plates
Complete set, series 1 to series 6 inclusive. This work contains thorough descriptions of each wild flower, as well as their habitats and uses in medicine. Each series with 160 pages, however, the last series has an extra 12 pages of ‘Index of English Names’, ‘Index of Botanical Names’, Table of Botanical’, and ‘Orders and General Represented in the Work’.
Each book has forty colour plates printed on thick cards, more like finished paintings than prints. Several black and white in-text illustrations. Illustrated capital letter to each chapter head. The quality and charm of the plates together with a more than usually informative letterpress made the work an immediate success and it was several times reissued in various formats.
Published by Cassell And Company, Limited, London, ca.1898. Publisher’s original dark blue textured boards, with gilt lettering pieces to spines. Top page edges gilt.
Book Dimensions: 20 x 14 and Number of Pages (6 Series): 972
Nice publication with weight over 3 kg without packaging
Condition
The books are beautiful bound, designed and illustrated. External covers in nice shape, slightly faded and with light wear to corners, and to head and foot of spines. Internally; in very good condition. No names or inscriptions. Inner hinges are very good, and pages are tightly held at the gutter. Light foxing marks to the margin of some pages, and page edges. The plates are clean and bright (Nice Firm Set) (Please see pictures).
Frederick Edward Hulme
"Frederick Edward Hulme (1841-1909), naturalist and artist, was born in Staffordshire England, the son of Frederick William Hulme, a landscape painter. In 1870 he was appointed art and drawing master at Marlborough College, which was around the time he published Familiar Wild Flowers, his best known work. Familiar Garden Flowers was published later in his career, and the plates reveal the same level of skill and beauty exhibited in his earlier works."
Details
Number of Books
6
Subject
Botany, Collected works, Illustrated
Book Title
Familiar Wild Flowers (Complete Set With 240 Colour Plates)
Author/ Illustrator
F. Edward Hulme
Condition
Very good
Publication year oldest item
1898
Height
20 cm
Edition
1st Edition, Illustrated Edition
Width
14 cm
Language
English
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Cassell And Company, Limited
Binding/ Material
Hardback
Number of pages
972
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