Warner (Robert; Williams, Benjamin Samuel; Moore, Thomas). The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants, 11 volumes, 1st edition, London: B. S. Williams, at the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 1882-1897, half-titles, 528 lithographic plates by and after John Nugent Fitch on 527 sheets, partly hand-coloured, partly colour-printed (plates 9/10 a double-page plate, plates 277-280 in volume 6 bound out of sequence), offsetting to some tissue guards (volume 11 bound without tissue guards), wood-engraved portrait of Williams in vol. 9, gutta-percha perishing in few volumes, occasional light scattered spotting and toning, few text leaves browned, half-title to volume 1 with late 20th-century ownership signature Oswaldo Lomer dated 1970, front free endpaper to volume 1 discarded, all edges gilt, original brown cloth, blocked in gilt and black, small area of wear to spine of volume 2, volume 9 with light damp mottling to fore-edge of upper board, 4to (Quantity: 11) Nissen BBI 2107; Great Flower Books, p.80. Begun by Williams with the idea of supplying a demand for orchid illustrations with botanical descriptions and notes on cultivation. The obituary of Williams included in volume 9, remarks that this book has been "hailed with great satisfaction in horticultural circles throughout the world, and it numbers amongst its subscribers nearly all lovers of Orchids and many of our leading and most influential horticulturalists." John Nugent Fitch (1840-1927) was the nephew of Walter Hood Fitch and almost as prolific in output as a botanical artist. His original drawings for this work are in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London.
Warner (Robert; Williams, Benjamin Samuel; Moore, Thomas). The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants, 11 volumes, 1st edition, London: B. S. Williams, at the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 1882-1897, half-titles, 528 lithographic plates by and after John Nugent Fitch on 527 sheets, partly hand-coloured, partly colour-printed (plates 9/10 a double-page plate, plates 277-280 in volume 6 bound out of sequence), offsetting to some tissue guards (volume 11 bound without tissue guards), wood-engraved portrait of Williams in vol. 9, gutta-percha perishing in few volumes, occasional light scattered spotting and toning, few text leaves browned, half-title to volume 1 with late 20th-century ownership signature Oswaldo Lomer dated 1970, front free endpaper to volume 1 discarded, all edges gilt, original brown cloth, blocked in gilt and black, small area of wear to spine of volume 2, volume 9 with light damp mottling to fore-edge of upper board, 4to (Quantity: 11) Nissen BBI 2107; Great Flower Books, p.80. Begun by Williams with the idea of supplying a demand for orchid illustrations with botanical descriptions and notes on cultivation. The obituary of Williams included in volume 9, remarks that this book has been "hailed with great satisfaction in horticultural circles throughout the world, and it numbers amongst its subscribers nearly all lovers of Orchids and many of our leading and most influential horticulturalists." John Nugent Fitch (1840-1927) was the nephew of Walter Hood Fitch and almost as prolific in output as a botanical artist. His original drawings for this work are in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London.
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