Wild Flowers Of Switzerland;.
Bound in original green cloth, gilt, with blind stamped rules at upper and lower edges of the bevelled boards. All edges gilt. Extremities worn and some foxing, otherwise a fine copy.
£250.00
Publisher
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street, London.,
Date
1883
Synopsis
Or, a year amongst the flowers of the alps. by h. c. w.
Item Description
Folio. 12.5 x 15.75 inches. vi + [2] + 76 pp. with lithographed frontispiece, and sixteen chromolithographic plates on a grey ground, all drawn by author and colour printed by Fritz Frick, Berlin, each opposite numbered sepia key drawings of the plants. Indexes of plant names in Latin, English, French and German.
Notes
A collection of splendid colour plates, illustrating wild flowers, drawn life-size from living plants, presumably within the area of the author's base of the village of Rosiniere, Canton du Vaud. Each plate and its key is followed by about four pages of text, with names, botanical descriptions and notes on habitat. The original watercolour drawings for this book were sold at Sotheby's in July 1977.
A proposed second volume on the Bernese Oberland was never published.
[Stock No. 20624]
