F. Edward Hulme - Familiar Wild Flowers (With 80 Colour Plates) - 1902
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Two volumes, series 7 and series 8. This work contains thorough descriptions of each wild flower, as well as their habitats and uses in medicine. Each series with 160 pages, and an extra 16 + 23 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, more like finished paintings, printed on thick paper. 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, 1902. Publishers’ original matching volumes with floral decorative green covers. Gilt titles on cover and spine
Book Dimensions: 20 x 14 and Number of Pages (2 Series): 320 + 16 + 23 pages of ‘Index of English Names’, ‘Index of Botanical Names’, Table of Botanical’, and ‘Orders and General Represented in the Work’.
Condition
The books are beautifully bound, designed, and illustrated. Firm and well-bound copies. External covers in nice shape, with light wear to corners, and to head and foot of spines. Internally; in nice condition. No names or inscriptions. Inner hinges are very good, and pages are tightly held at the gutter. Pages are clean with light foxing marks to the margin of some pages, and page edges. The plates are clean and bright (Lovely Books) (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."
Two volumes, series 7 and series 8. This work contains thorough descriptions of each wild flower, as well as their habitats and uses in medicine. Each series with 160 pages, and an extra 16 + 23 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, more like finished paintings, printed on thick paper. 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, 1902. Publishers’ original matching volumes with floral decorative green covers. Gilt titles on cover and spine
Book Dimensions: 20 x 14 and Number of Pages (2 Series): 320 + 16 + 23 pages of ‘Index of English Names’, ‘Index of Botanical Names’, Table of Botanical’, and ‘Orders and General Represented in the Work’.
Condition
The books are beautifully bound, designed, and illustrated. Firm and well-bound copies. External covers in nice shape, with light wear to corners, and to head and foot of spines. Internally; in nice condition. No names or inscriptions. Inner hinges are very good, and pages are tightly held at the gutter. Pages are clean with light foxing marks to the margin of some pages, and page edges. The plates are clean and bright (Lovely Books) (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
2
Subject
Botany, Collected works, Illustrated
Book Title
Familiar Wild Flowers (With 80 Colour Plates)
Author/ Illustrator
F. Edward Hulme
Condition
Very good
Publication year oldest item
1902
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
320
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