Johnstone (William Grosart, & Alexander Croall). The Nature-Printed British Sea-Weeds, 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1859-60, half-titles and additional engraved title-page with nature-printed vignette to each volume, initial advertisement leaf to volumes 1 and 2, 220 nature-printed colour plates by Henry Bradbury 2 engraved plates of which 1 hand-coloured, tissue-guards, occasional spotting, marginal repair to volume 1 text-leaf X1, volume 2 N1 and X1, and volume 3 plate 170, original pebble-grain green cloth gilt, spines sunned, corners bumped, small mark to volume 2 front board, scratch to volume 3 rear board, large 8vo in 4s (Qty: 4) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Freeman 2020; Nissen BBI 1002; Stafleu & Cowan 3383 (erroneously counting the coloured engraving as a nature-print). The second book published in Britain to use the technique of 'nature-printing', following Thomas Moore's Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland (1855), also illustrated by Bradbury. Bradbury's claim to have invented nature-printing was disputed by Austrian imperial printer Alois Auer but 'certainly Bradbury brought the process back to Britain and there perfected it' (ODNB).
Johnstone (William Grosart, & Alexander Croall). The Nature-Printed British Sea-Weeds, 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1859-60, half-titles and additional engraved title-page with nature-printed vignette to each volume, initial advertisement leaf to volumes 1 and 2, 220 nature-printed colour plates by Henry Bradbury 2 engraved plates of which 1 hand-coloured, tissue-guards, occasional spotting, marginal repair to volume 1 text-leaf X1, volume 2 N1 and X1, and volume 3 plate 170, original pebble-grain green cloth gilt, spines sunned, corners bumped, small mark to volume 2 front board, scratch to volume 3 rear board, large 8vo in 4s (Qty: 4) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Freeman 2020; Nissen BBI 1002; Stafleu & Cowan 3383 (erroneously counting the coloured engraving as a nature-print). The second book published in Britain to use the technique of 'nature-printing', following Thomas Moore's Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland (1855), also illustrated by Bradbury. Bradbury's claim to have invented nature-printing was disputed by Austrian imperial printer Alois Auer but 'certainly Bradbury brought the process back to Britain and there perfected it' (ODNB).
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