1856 E.J. LOWE'S FERNS; ASPIDIUM PUMILUM, Pl. XV

Description: 1856 Color Wood Engraving Chromoxylograph from: F E R N S : BRITISH AND EXOTIC ASPIDIUM PUMILUMPl. XV(Dryopteris filix-mas?) About the Volumes: Ferns: British & Exotic by EJ Lowe, Esq. This lovely work was published in London, by Groombridge and Sons.is a stunning guide to the most exquisite and beautiful plants in cultivation in the UK at the time. It is a comprehensive and beautiful work on ferns from all over the world. The octavo sized volume was dedicated to the Duke of Newcastle, "a nobleman universally beloved for his public and private works..." It contains beautiful colored plates of different types of ferns including, Gymnogramma, Nothochlaena, Niphobelus and Polypodium. Victorians cultivated ferns with a passion, creating elaborate glass houses (ferneries) for their display. Volumes describing these plants and their propagation were very popular at the end of the nineteenth century. About the Author:Edward Joseph Lowe FRS FGS FRAS FLS (11 November 1825 – 10 March 1900) was a British botanist, meteorologist and astronomer, who published papers on a wide variety of subjects, including luminous meteors, sunspots, the zodiacal light, meteorological observations during the 1860 solar eclipse (at Fuente del Mar, near Santander), conchology, ferns, grasses and other plants. He was an independently wealthy naturalist and member of the Royal society, who also published other works such as A History of Ferns, British and Exotic, in 1856-60 & A Natural History of British Grasses in 1862. About the Artist:Alexander Francis Lydon (1836/1837 – 1917) was an Irish-born British watercolor artist, illustrator and engraver of natural history and landscapes. He worked for Benjamin Fawcett the printer, to whom he had been apprenticed from an early age. He collaborated on a large number of works with the Rev. Francis Orpen Morris who wrote the text. About the Plates:This lovely work was published in London, by Groombridge and Sons. From about 1855 on, Groombridge was the principal publisher for the renowned Benjamin Fawcett, the greatest color printer of the 19th century. Fawcett pioneered a system of wood block engraving from multiple wood blocks that resulted in vivid finely colored works such as this marvelous book. This process was called chromoxylography (color wood engraving). A History of Ferns was Fawcett's first large project that was almost entirely color printed, with some hand finishing in watercolor. Condition:Appears to be in Very Good condition for a 163-year-old print. The coloring & exquisitely fine detail work appears to remain sharp & brilliant as the day it was printed. Very little age-toning for a print this old. Please peruse the detailed photos. Printed on creamy wove paper.These prints are very old & may have minor imperfections expected with age, such as some typical age-toning of the paper, spots, text-offsetting, artifacts from having been bound into a book, etc. Please examine the photos & details carefully.Text Page(s): This one comes without a text page. (Please note, the scan of the title page is included for reference, it's not part of this listing...) About This Beautiful Plant:Aspidium pumilum, is apparently also known as Phanerophlebia pumila.Phanerophlebia is a genus of ferns in the family Dryopteridaceae, subfamily DryopteridoideaeThe native range of this species is Mexico to Guatemala. It grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. However, this may actually be Dryopteris filix-mas, a fern of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, native to much of Europe, Asia, and North America. D. filix-mas is culturally named the title plant of Nurmijärvi, the municipality in Uusimaa, Finland. The reason is that the plant is related to the first Finnish pharmaceutical factory located in Nurmijärvi in 1899–1964. The pharmaceutical factory founded by the pharmacist Albin Koponen made Diphyllobothrium latum and cestoda medicines called Filisin and Filicon, the raw material of which was the rhizome of D. filix-mas. The rhizomes were still collected in the locality in the 1960s. The medicine was also used to treat liver fluke in sheep in Finland. Size: 9-1/2" x 6" inches approximately. Shipping: Multiple prints combine into one USPS Flat-Rate envelope. If you'd like to combine & need more time to choose, please send a message & we'll do our best to oblige. If you're assessed multiple shipping for one combined package, we'll endeavor to refund any overage asap. Thanks for Visiting!

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