BATEMAN, JAMES. The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala. London: J. Ridgway & Sons for the author, [1837-1843]. Elephant folio, 729 x 534 mm. (28 11/16 x 21 in.), contemporary hardgrained red morocco gilt, g.e., by J. Wright, hinges and spine worn, upper joint badly cracked, plates 9, 16, 29 and 40 with trifling foxing, title foxed, dedication leaf, text leaf to plate 39, final leaf and the slips creased, blank endleaves creased, most severely at front and partly torn. One of 125 copies, ornamental lithographed title-page by J. Brandard, 40 hand-colored lithographed plates drawn on stone by Maxim Gauci after Miss S.A. Drake (16), Mrs. Augusta Withers (21), Miss Jane Edwards (1), and Samuel Holden (1), one plate unsigned, one uncolored plan of epiphyte houses and 38 tailpiece wood-engraved vignettes, 2 by George Cruikshank "Addenda et Corrigenda" and "Directions to the Binder" slips bound in at end. Blunt & Stearn, pp. 249-252; Great Flower Books , p. 48; Nissen BBI 89; Stafleu TL2 342. A most desirable copy, with no damage to its magnificent plates, of a book that is nearly always found with severe condition problems due to its sheer bulk. "Mrs. Withers and Miss Drake...illustrated what is probably the finest, and certainly the largest, botanical book ever produced with lithographic plates...An amusing vignette by George Cruikshank shows the difficulty of handling this 'Librarian's nightmare'...But in size and in splendour, Bateman's giant folio eclipses the works of all who went before or came after him. Maxim Gauci, who was born in Malta [was]...a master of the process, he ranged his tone from the palest of silvery greys to the richest velvet black; his outline is never mechanical or obtrusive; and the hand-coloring -- whoever may have been responsible for it -- is executed with consummate skill..." -- Wilfrid Blunt and William T. Stearn, The Art of Botanical Illustration. New Edition (Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K., 1995). Provenance : Estelle Doheny, bookplates (sale, Christie's, Camarillo, California, 1 February 1988, lot 335).
BATEMAN, JAMES. The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala. London: J. Ridgway & Sons for the author, [1837-1843]. Elephant folio, 729 x 534 mm. (28 11/16 x 21 in.), contemporary hardgrained red morocco gilt, g.e., by J. Wright, hinges and spine worn, upper joint badly cracked, plates 9, 16, 29 and 40 with trifling foxing, title foxed, dedication leaf, text leaf to plate 39, final leaf and the slips creased, blank endleaves creased, most severely at front and partly torn. One of 125 copies, ornamental lithographed title-page by J. Brandard, 40 hand-colored lithographed plates drawn on stone by Maxim Gauci after Miss S.A. Drake (16), Mrs. Augusta Withers (21), Miss Jane Edwards (1), and Samuel Holden (1), one plate unsigned, one uncolored plan of epiphyte houses and 38 tailpiece wood-engraved vignettes, 2 by George Cruikshank "Addenda et Corrigenda" and "Directions to the Binder" slips bound in at end. Blunt & Stearn, pp. 249-252; Great Flower Books , p. 48; Nissen BBI 89; Stafleu TL2 342. A most desirable copy, with no damage to its magnificent plates, of a book that is nearly always found with severe condition problems due to its sheer bulk. "Mrs. Withers and Miss Drake...illustrated what is probably the finest, and certainly the largest, botanical book ever produced with lithographic plates...An amusing vignette by George Cruikshank shows the difficulty of handling this 'Librarian's nightmare'...But in size and in splendour, Bateman's giant folio eclipses the works of all who went before or came after him. Maxim Gauci, who was born in Malta [was]...a master of the process, he ranged his tone from the palest of silvery greys to the richest velvet black; his outline is never mechanical or obtrusive; and the hand-coloring -- whoever may have been responsible for it -- is executed with consummate skill..." -- Wilfrid Blunt and William T. Stearn, The Art of Botanical Illustration. New Edition (Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K., 1995). Provenance : Estelle Doheny, bookplates (sale, Christie's, Camarillo, California, 1 February 1988, lot 335).
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