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A fundamental work on Victorian bryology.
A UNIQUE COPY WITH A FASCINATING HISTORY.

BRAITHWAITE, Robert.  The British Moss-flora.   Three volumes bound in four.  An unusual set in that the first two volumes have been interleaved; then the plates have been cut up and pasted opposite the species they describe. This obviously allows for considerable ease of use.  Two images have been lightly hand-coloured.  There are a few neat pencil notes and amendments.  The third volume has been left unchanged.  The fatness of these volumes has allowed a certain amount of dust to enter from the top edges, resulting in some foxing and marking.  All volumes are now bound in a contemporary brown cloth, with slight wear; mainly to the spine of Volume I part II. 

[Originally in the ownership of the neurologist Dr (later Sir), William Richard Gowers of Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, who lent them to a patient, (Benson?) who then had them bound in this manner.  On Benson’s death they were returned, and then sold to the naturalist, photographer and ornithologist F.G. Penrose of Wick House, Downton, Wilts.  All this is documented in four hand-written letters from 1905.  They then moved to the ownership of the Indian forester Henry Haselfoot Haines, with his bookplate in each volume.  Finally they rested with the botanist R.D. Tweed, whose  signature is on the endpapers and the title pages.]. This set has both sets of title pages, one from the author and the second from the publisher, Reeve.                                                                               1888(?) – 1905

[Robert Braithwaite was a leading British bryologist in the 19th century. He wrote 'Sphagnaceae or Peat-mosses of Europe and North America' , but his lasting contribution to British bryology is this three volumes work, illustrated by himself. Braithwaite’s botanical interests very likely sprang from his medical training, for in the nineteenth century medical men had to familiarize themselves with native plants and their therapeutic and toxic properties. In addition, Braithwaite arrived in London around the time when microscopy was becoming an avant-garde interest for polite society. He
gained entry to this world through his contact with Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, who examined in botany at the Chelsea Physic Garden and was the promoter of the Wardian Case. Indeed, Braithwaite’s entire bryological career was based on and molded around his love of microscopy, kindled by his exposure as a young man to the enthusiasm and camaraderie at Ward’s evening parties, and he always remained keener on this aspect of his hobby than on expeditions in the field.
H.N. Dixon’s delightful obituary of Braithwaite in the Journal of Botany recounts that “….Dr Braithwaite was not a great field-botanist. Trematodon ambiguus in its lonely outpost on Schiehallion [in central Perthshire] stands to his credit, but I do not think he added much else to our British moss flora. Nor did he ever speak of field-work as if he took much delight in it…. He told me…. of an expedition with Dr Stirton and Ewing to the Hebrides, when Stirton was to show him the locality, on Benbecula, for some rare or unique Campylopus found there thirteen years earlier. Arrived at the spot there was naught but a potato patch to be seen, and the Campylopus appeared to have joined the ranks of extinct species. On the return journey they had unpleasant experiences, being nearly overtaken by the tide and nearly or quite stranded by fog. Braithwaite must have looked back on the Outer Hebrides with somewhat similar feelings to Dr Johnson. It could have been no great comfort to him when Dr Stirton wrote later that he found he had taken them to the wrong spot for the Campylopus!”
Going on to discuss The British Moss Flora in his obituary of Braithwaite, Dixon recounts that “this elaborate…. work of art…. bears all the marks of the amateur in the original and highest sense of the word…. and indeed in some measure defeated its own purpose, for [Braithwaite’s] intense desire to make it artistically perfect, the high finish of the illustrations, [and]…. elaboration of the synonymy, brought the work to such a size and cost, while at the same time extending …. its publication over so many years as to prejudice very greatly its sale….”.]

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