BRITTEN, James. European Ferns. With Coloured Illustrations from Nature by D. Blair, F.L.S.
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., (1882). Large 4to,
9 X 11 inches .196 pages. Thirty chromolithographic plates; many wood-engraved text
illustrations, including full page, index. half leather, gilt spine title
lettering, gilt decorations on raised bands. Top edge of cover & corners
damaged,
First Edition in book form; the work was issued in parts from 1879 to 1891. A comprehensive account with magnificent plates painted by David Blair and lithographed by the firm of Vincent, Brooks, Day & Son. Most fern illustrations tend to be monotonously all-green, but Blair included plenty of brown spores and contextual planting beds and stones to produce fine multi-colored images.
COLOURED (CHROMOLITHOGRAPH) PLATES
 | Front Lomaria Spicant
| 1 Struthiopteris germanica
| 5 Woodsia
| 9 Dicksonia Culcita
| 17 Trichomanes radicans, Hymenophyllum tunbridgense, Wilsoni
| 19 Davallia canariensis
| 25 Cystopteris
| 28 Pteris aquilina
| 40 Pteris longifolia
| 49 Adiantum
| 52 Cheilanthes
| 56 Cryptogramme crispa
| 76 Woodwardia radicans
| 89 Asplenium and Ceterach
| 96 Asplenium
| 101 Asplenium marinum
| 113 Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum, Lanceolatum
| 131 Asplenium Filix-foemina
| 136 Scolopendrium vulgare, Hemionitis
| 144 Polystichum Lonchitis, aculeatum
| 152 Aspidium Oreopteris, Thelypteris
| 155 Nephrodium rigidum, Filix0mas
| 161 Aspidium Foenisecii, cristatum
| 163 Polypodium vulgare, Phegopteris
| 165 Polypodium Dryopteris, Robertianum
| 168 Polypodium alpestre
| 172 Notholaena lanuginosa, Marantae, Gymnogramma Leptophylla
| 175 Osmunda regalis
| 185 Ophioglossum vulgatam, lusitanicum
| 188 Botrychium © 2001 SHIGITATSU | |
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