JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER (1817-1911) Illustrations of Himalayan Plants [ chiefly selected from Drawings made for the late J.F. Cathcart Esq. of the Bengal Civil Service ]. London: Lovell Reeve, 1855. 2° (506 x 377mm). Letterpress title, dedication leaf, 4pp. introduction, explanation leaf, list of subscribers, text. Lithographic additional title within an elaborate hand-coloured border, 24 hand-coloured lithographic plates by W.H. Fitch after Hooker and Fitch, most based on drawings by 'native artists', printed by Vincent Brooks (Text leaf to pl. XXII with a few tiny holes sometime repaired to verso and affecting 2 letters.) Original printed boards (rebacked with new cloth spine and endpapers, the boards strengthened, mounted on new guards throughout). ' ONE OF THE FINEST FLOWER BOOKS EVER PRODUCED ' (Jan Lewis). Hooker wished the present work to stand as a tribute to, and a record of the services to botany of James F. Cathcart (1802-1851). Cathcart, despite poor health, spent a significant proportion of his life recording the flora of the Himalayas with the aid of 'native artists' (he employed up to six working full-time). The present work was financed partly by Cathcart's family, partly by subscription (176 names are listed) and partly by subsequent sales. Most of the plates were re-drawn by Fitch who 'corrected the stiffness and want of botanical knowledge displayed by the native artists', in addition Hooker supplied a number of his own drawings of 'alpine plants found at greater elevation than Mr. Cathcart was enabled to visit'. The results include, according to Patrick Synge (writing in Great Flower Books [1990]) 'probably the finest plates of Magnolia campbellii and Meconopsis simpliciifolia ever made'. Great Flower Books (1990) p.101; Jan Lewis Walter Hood Fitch A celebration 1992,p.16; Nissen BBI 910; Stafleu and Cowan 2973.
JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER (1817-1911) Illustrations of Himalayan Plants [ chiefly selected from Drawings made for the late J.F. Cathcart Esq. of the Bengal Civil Service ]. London: Lovell Reeve, 1855. 2° (506 x 377mm). Letterpress title, dedication leaf, 4pp. introduction, explanation leaf, list of subscribers, text. Lithographic additional title within an elaborate hand-coloured border, 24 hand-coloured lithographic plates by W.H. Fitch after Hooker and Fitch, most based on drawings by 'native artists', printed by Vincent Brooks (Text leaf to pl. XXII with a few tiny holes sometime repaired to verso and affecting 2 letters.) Original printed boards (rebacked with new cloth spine and endpapers, the boards strengthened, mounted on new guards throughout). ' ONE OF THE FINEST FLOWER BOOKS EVER PRODUCED ' (Jan Lewis). Hooker wished the present work to stand as a tribute to, and a record of the services to botany of James F. Cathcart (1802-1851). Cathcart, despite poor health, spent a significant proportion of his life recording the flora of the Himalayas with the aid of 'native artists' (he employed up to six working full-time). The present work was financed partly by Cathcart's family, partly by subscription (176 names are listed) and partly by subsequent sales. Most of the plates were re-drawn by Fitch who 'corrected the stiffness and want of botanical knowledge displayed by the native artists', in addition Hooker supplied a number of his own drawings of 'alpine plants found at greater elevation than Mr. Cathcart was enabled to visit'. The results include, according to Patrick Synge (writing in Great Flower Books [1990]) 'probably the finest plates of Magnolia campbellii and Meconopsis simpliciifolia ever made'. Great Flower Books (1990) p.101; Jan Lewis Walter Hood Fitch A celebration 1992,p.16; Nissen BBI 910; Stafleu and Cowan 2973.
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