![]() Barbirolli had toured five English cities with Neveu just before her tragic flight to New York. She told me “He burst into tears, and was inconsolable. He thought it one of the greatest losses that music had suffered in the 20th Century”. Listen to David Mellor ’s show on Classic FM at 7pm every Sunday.ROBERT WARNER (1814-1896), BENJAMIN SAMUEL WILLIAMS (1822-1890) AND THOMAS MOORE (1821-1887) Listen to these recordings and, in spite of sometimes limited sound, you will readily hear why he felt as he did. The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants. Condition: As shown, on fairly stiff paper in excellent condition. Explore Panteek Antique Prints's board 'Warner Orchid Album Prints 1882', followed by 31,737 people on Pinterest. Williams, at the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 1882-1897. ![]() Therefore, you can be confident that this item will not deteriorate beyond the natural aging process. See more ideas about prints, orchids, antique prints. 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 (light scattered browning and spotting.) Original brown morocco gilt, gilt-lettered and decorated on covers and spine, edges gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, few volumes lightly scuffed).įIRST EDITION OF THESE BEAUTIFUL PLATES. A rare complete set of one of the finest publications on orchids and an. Benjamin Samuel William's obituary, appearing in volume 9, recollects the intentions of this magnificent work: 'In 1881 he commenced his magnum opus, The Orchid Album, which was projected with the idea of supplying a demand for illustrations of Orchidaceous plants, with botanical descriptions of the plants figured, and notes on their cultivation. Warner again, he commenced the publication of The Orchid Album. Its appearance was hailed with great satisfaction in horticultural circles throughout the world, and it numbers among its subscribers nearly all lovers of Orchids and many of our leading and most influential horticulturalists'. The illustrator, John Nugent Fitch (1840-1927), was the nephew of the equally-prolific botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch. Nissen BBI 2107, Great Flower Books (1990) p.149.His original drawings for The Orchid Album are in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. Wealthy orchid fanatics of the twentieth century sent explorers and collectors to every part of the world in search of new varieties of orchids. Orchidelirium is the name given to the Victorian era of flower madness when collecting and discovering orchids reached extraordinarily high levels. This work set the standard for orchid description and illustration. Bound in dark brown morocco leather, gilt title on left cover within gilt-tooled frame with angular floral decorative motives. A few slightly browned, without affecting the images. 4 contains plates from 145 to 192 (of a grand total of 528 lithographic plates) by and after John Nugent Fitch, partly hand-coloured, partly colour-printed. The Coloured Figures by John Nugent Fitch, F.L.S. The Botanical Descriptions by Thomas Moore, F.L.S., F.R.H.S., Curator of the Chelsea Botanic Garden. Conducted by Robert Warner, F.L.S., F.R.H.S., Author of Select Orchidaceous Plants, and Benjamin Samuel Williams, F.L.S., F.R.H.S., Author of the Orchid Grower s Manual, etc. ![]() WARNER, Robert WILLIAMS, Benjamin Samuel.
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