Johann Jakob Dillenius 1732
Large Folio Original George Heaths Ferns 1885 Chromolithograph/ Spleenwort , Alpine Polypody
Francis George. HEATH,
published in London, 1885. page Size : 15.2 x 11.4 inches. /
38.6 x 29.0 cm. One of the fifteen chromo-lithographed
colour plates from the volume. All the species of British
ferns are included in this volume. The work is intended to
present a series of life-size representation of ferns,
including information on their characteristics and
habitats.The ferns include the royal fern, the true
maidenhair, the holly fern, the little adder's tongue, the
alpine bladder fern, the parsley fern, the alpine polypody,
the oblong woodsia, and more. The border is a beige tone
central page pale cream ie not white Sold in the USA/Canada
at $250+ per plate. This is NOT the cheaper 4o version often
seen but the large original deluxe folio and much much
rarer. I do NOT chop books but buy prints that are left as
original so may be used to repair books. If a number are
wanted please ask in advance and I will amend the postage
prior to purchase .
Condition Issues:-
Printed to soft paper that takes the image superbly but
tends to tone and go raggy to the edges easily. Fine and
stable once framed but do take care until framed £60
inc delivery
Large Folio Original George Heaths Ferns 1885 Chromolithograph/ Royal Fern
Francis George. HEATH,
published in London, 1885. page Size : 15.2 x 11.4 inches. /
38.6 x 29.0 cm. One of the fifteen chromo-lithographed
colour plates from the volume. All the species of British
ferns are included in this volume. The work is intended to
present a series of life-size representation of ferns,
including information on their characteristics and
habitats.The ferns include the royal fern, the true
maidenhair, the holly fern, the little adder's tongue, the
alpine bladder fern, the parsley fern, the alpine polypody,
the oblong woodsia, and more. The border is a beige tone
central page pale cream ie not white Sold in the USA/Canada
at $250+ per plate. This is NOT the cheaper 4o version often
seen but the large original deluxe folio and much much
rarer. I do NOT chop books but buy prints that are left as
original so may be used to repair books. If a number are
wanted please ask in advance and I will amend the postage
prior to purchase .Condition Issues:- Printed to soft paper
that takes the image superbly but tends to tone and go raggy
to the edges easily. Fine and stable once framed but do take
care until framed £40 inc delivery marked
Large Folio Original George Heaths Ferns 1885 Chromolithograph/ Filmy Fern
Francis George. HEATH,
published in London, 1885. page Size : 15.2 x 11.4 inches. /
38.6 x 29.0 cm. One of the fifteen chromo-lithographed
colour plates from the volume. All the species of British
ferns are included in this volume. The work is intended to
present a series of life-size representation of ferns,
including information on their characteristics and
habitats.The ferns include the royal fern, the true
maidenhair, the holly fern, the little adder's tongue, the
alpine bladder fern, the parsley fern, the alpine polypody,
the oblong woodsia, and more. The border is a beige tone
central page pale cream ie not white Sold in the USA/Canada
at $250+ per plate. This is NOT the cheaper 4o version often
seen but the large original deluxe folio and much much
rarer. I do NOT chop books but buy prints that are left as
original so may be used to repair books. If a number are
wanted please ask in advance and I will amend the postage
prior to purchase . Condition Issues:- Printed to soft
paper that takes the image superbly but tends to tone and go
raggy to the edges easily. Fine and stable once framed but
do take care until framed £60 inc delivery
Large Folio Original George Heaths Ferns 1885
Chromolithograph/ Soft Prickly Fern
Original antique prints from “The Nature-Printed
British Ferns” by Bradbury and Evans, published in 1859.The
“nature-printed” process developed by the Austrian Alois
Auer and perfected by Henry Bradbury. In this unique process
a plant is pressed into a plate of soft lead, leaving an
impression from which an electrotype is made. The resultant
prints are incredibly life like and true to nature,
capturing the fine detail of each fern without the
interpretation of an engraver or artist but these are
electrotypes taken from the original folio print
individually hand finished . Each print is approximately 6
inches wide by 9 ½ inches long. £35 collected £40 including
delivery shown through cellophane bagFrancis George. HEATH, published in London, 1885.
page Size : 15.2 x 11.4 inches. / 38.6 x 29.0 cm.
One of the fifteen chromo-lithographed colour plates
from the volume. All the species of British ferns are
included in this volume. The work is intended to present
a series of life-size representation of ferns, including
information on their characteristics and habitats.The
ferns include the royal fern, the true maidenhair, the
holly fern, the little adder's tongue, the alpine
bladder fern, the parsley fern, the alpine polypody, the
oblong woodsia, and more. The border is a beige tone
central page pale cream ie not white Sold in the
USA/Canada at $250+ per plate. This is NOT the cheaper
4o version often seen but the large original deluxe
folio and much much rarer. I do NOT chop books but buy
prints that are left as original so may be used to
repair books. If a number are wanted please ask in
advance and I will amend the postage prior to purchase
. Condition Issues:- Printed to soft paper that
takes the image superbly but tends to tone and go raggy
to the edges easily. Fine and stable once framed but do
take care until framed £60 inc delivery
Large Folio Original George Heaths Ferns 1885
Chromolithograph/ Buckler Fern
Athyrium filix-foemina Fern 1Francis George. HEATH, published in London, 1885.
page Size : 15.2 x 11.4 inches. / 38.6 x 29.0
cm. One of the fifteen chromo-lithographed
colour plates from the volume. All the species of
British ferns are included in this volume. The work is
intended to present a series of life-size
representation of ferns, including information on
their characteristics and habitats.The ferns include
the royal fern, the true maidenhair, the holly fern,
the little adder's tongue, the alpine bladder fern,
the parsley fern, the alpine polypody, the oblong
woodsia, and more. The border is a beige tone central
page pale cream ie not white Sold in the USA/Canada at
$250+ per plate. This is NOT the cheaper 4o version
often seen but the large original deluxe folio and
much much rarer. I do NOT chop books but buy prints
that are left as original so may be used to repair
books. If a number are wanted please ask in advance
and I will amend the postage prior to purchase .
Condition Issues:- Printed to soft paper that takes
the image superbly but tends to tone and go raggy to
the edges easily. Fine and stable once framed but do
take care until framed £60 inc delivery
Large Folio Original George Heaths Ferns 1885
Chromolithograph/ Bladder Fern
Francis George. HEATH, published in London, 1885.
page Size : 15.2 x 11.4 inches. / 38.6 x 29.0
cm. One of the fifteen chromo-lithographed
colour plates from the volume. All the species of
British ferns are included in this volume. The work
is intended to present a series of life-size
representation of ferns, including information on
their characteristics and habitats.The ferns include
the royal fern, the true maidenhair, the holly fern,
the little adder's tongue, the alpine bladder fern,
the parsley fern, the alpine polypody, the oblong
woodsia, and more. The border is a beige tone
central page pale cream ie not white Sold in the
USA/Canada at $250+ per plate. This is NOT the
cheaper 4o version often seen but the large original
deluxe folio and much much rarer. I do NOT chop
books but buy prints that are left as original so
may be used to repair books. If a number are wanted
please ask in advance and I will amend the postage
prior to purchase . Condition Issues:- Printed
to soft paper that takes the image superbly but
tends to tone and go raggy to the edges easily. Fine
and stable once framed but do take care until
framed £60 inc delivery
Large Folio Original George Heaths Ferns
1885 Chromolithograph/ Parsley Fern
All large folio sold out sorry These
are the smaller Quarto so more affordable
Each print measures approximately 6 inches wide
by 9 ½ inches long
Francis George. HEATH, published in London,
1885. page Size : 15.2 x 11.4 inches. / 38.6 x
29.0 cm. One of the fifteen
chromo-lithographed colour plates from the volume.
All the species of British ferns are included in
this volume. The work is intended to present a
series of life-size representation of ferns,
including information on their characteristics and
habitats.The ferns include the royal fern, the
true maidenhair, the holly fern, the little
adder's tongue, the alpine bladder fern, the
parsley fern, the alpine polypody, the oblong
woodsia, and more. The border is a beige tone
central page pale cream ie not white Sold in the
USA/Canada at $250+ per plate. This is NOT the
cheaper 4o version often seen but the large
original deluxe folio and much much rarer. I do
NOT chop books but buy prints that are left as
original so may be used to repair books. If a
number are wanted please ask in advance and I will
amend the postage prior to purchase .
Condition Issues:- Printed to soft paper that
takes the image superbly but tends to tone and go
raggy to the edges easily. Fine and stable once
framed but do take care until framed £60 inc
delivery
Nature-printed ferns were
created by pressing actual specimens in
lead, transferring the image by electrotype to
a copper plate and printing and hand-colouring
each Folio. (548 x 368mm) one. The process
allowed the reproduction of the finest details
down to the veins of the fronds by Henry
Bradbury, depicting the native ferns of Great
Britain and Ireland . These are the rarest and
best of the Fern prints hence the cost
Thomas Moore was a British gardener and botanist, an expert on ferns and plants serving as Curator of the Society of Apothecaries Garden from 1848 to 1887. The garden, renamed the Chelsea Physic Garden in 1875, increased the number of fern species cultivated there by fifty percent under his tenure. The Thomas Moore Fernery was built on the site of his original garden in 1907, and today contains a display of varieties of ferns described and cultivated by Moore and popular during the Victorian era.
Henry Bradbury (1831-1860),
who printed this The Ferns of Great
Britain and Ireland, was among the
foremost 19th-century practitioners of
nature-printing. The son of William Bradbury,
the founder of the publishing house Bradbury
& Evans, Henry studied at the Imperial
Printing Office in Vienna , directed by Alois
Auer, who had improved upon existing
nature-printing techniques in 1850,
introducing an electroplating technique. Auer
patented his nature printing process with his
associate Andreas Worring in October 1852.
Returning to England , Bradbury patented his
own version, resulting in an acrimonious
conflict with Auer over credit for the
process. Bradbury had wide-ranging interests
in printing, including secure means of
producing bank notes, paper money. He had
planned ambitious projects including
nature-printed books on fungi and trees and a
work on the graphic arts, but he committed
suicide at the age of 29, leaving these plans
unfulfilled. After Henry Bradbury's death, the
firm continued producing stamps and bank notes
as Bradbury Wilkinson & Co. until 1986,
when it was bought out by a competitor.
Athyrium filix-foemina Fern 2
Original antique prints
from “The Nature-Printed British Ferns” by Bradbury and
Evans, published in 1859.The “nature-printed” process
developed by the Austrian Alois Auer and perfected by Henry
Bradbury. In this unique process a plant is pressed into a
plate of soft lead, leaving an impression from which an
electrotype is made. The resultant prints are incredibly
life like and true to nature, capturing the fine detail of
each fern without the interpretation of an engraver or
artist but these are electrotypes taken from the
original folio print individually hand finished . Each
print is approximately 6 inches wide by 9 ½ inches long. £35
collected £40 including delivery shown through cellophane
bag
Athyrium filix-foemina Fern 3
Original antique prints
from “The Nature-Printed British Ferns” by Bradbury and
Evans, published in 1859.The “nature-printed” process
developed by the Austrian Alois Auer and perfected by Henry
Bradbury. In this unique process a plant is pressed into a
plate of soft lead, leaving an impression from which an
electrotype is made. The resultant prints are incredibly
life like and true to nature, capturing the fine detail of
each fern without the interpretation of an engraver or
artist but these are electrotypes taken from the
original folio print individually hand finished . Each
print is approximately 6 inches wide by 9 ½ inches long. £35
collected £40 including delivery shown through cellophane
bag
Athyrium filix-foemina Fern 4
Original antique prints
from “The Nature-Printed British Ferns” by Bradbury and
Evans, published in 1859.The “nature-printed” process
developed by the Austrian Alois Auer and perfected by Henry
Bradbury. In this unique process a plant is pressed into a
plate of soft lead, leaving an impression from which an
electrotype is made. The resultant prints are incredibly
life like and true to nature, capturing the fine detail of
each fern without the interpretation of an engraver or
artist but these are electrotypes taken from the
original folio print individually hand finished . Each
print is approximately 6 inches wide by 9 ½ inches long. £35
collected £40 including delivery shown through cellophane
bag
Athyrium filix-foemina Fern 5
Original antique prints
from “The Nature-Printed British Ferns” by Bradbury and
Evans, published in 1859.The “nature-printed” process
developed by the Austrian Alois Auer and perfected by Henry
Bradbury. In this unique process a plant is pressed into a
plate of soft lead, leaving an impression from which an
electrotype is made. The resultant prints are incredibly
life like and true to nature, capturing the fine detail of
each fern without the interpretation of an engraver or
artist but these are electrotypes taken from the
original folio print individually hand finished . Each
print is approximately 6 inches wide by 9 ½ inches long. £35
collected £40 including delivery shown through cellophane
bag
Athyrium filix-foemina Fern 6
Original antique prints
from “The Nature-Printed British Ferns” by Bradbury and
Evans, published in 1859.The “nature-printed” process
developed by the Austrian Alois Auer and perfected by Henry
Bradbury. In this unique process a plant is pressed into a
plate of soft lead, leaving an impression from which an
electrotype is made. The resultant prints are incredibly
life like and true to nature, capturing the fine detail of
each fern without the interpretation of an engraver or
artist but these are electrotypes taken from the
original folio print individually hand finished . Each
print is approximately 6 inches wide by 9 ½ inches long. £35
collected £40 including delivery shown through cellophane
bag
Athyrium filix-foemina Fern 7
Original antique prints
from “The Nature-Printed British Ferns” by Bradbury and
Evans, published in 1859.The “nature-printed” process
developed by the Austrian Alois Auer and perfected by Henry
Bradbury. In this unique process a plant is pressed into a
plate of soft lead, leaving an impression from which an
electrotype is made. The resultant prints are incredibly
life like and true to nature, capturing the fine detail of
each fern without the interpretation of an engraver or
artist but these are electrotypes taken from the
original folio print individually hand finished . Each
print is approximately 6 inches wide by 9 ½ inches long. £35
collected £40 including delivery shown through cellophane
bag
Athyrium filix-foemina Fern 8 ** Marked**
Original antique prints from “The Nature-Printed
British Ferns” by Bradbury and Evans, published in
1859.The “nature-printed” process developed by the
Austrian Alois Auer and perfected by Henry Bradbury. In
this unique process a plant is pressed into a plate of
soft lead, leaving an impression from which an electrotype
is made. The resultant prints are incredibly life like and
true to nature, capturing the fine detail of each fern
without the interpretation of an engraver or artist
but these are electrotypes taken from the original folio
print individually hand finished . Each print is
approximately 6 inches wide by 9 ½ inches long. £25
collected £30 shown through cellophane bag
Asplenium L
Original antique prints
from “The Nature-Printed British Ferns” by Bradbury and
Evans, published in 1859.The “nature-printed” process
developed by the Austrian Alois Auer and perfected by Henry
Bradbury. In this unique process a plant is pressed into a
plate of soft lead, leaving an impression from which an
electrotype is made. The resultant prints are incredibly
life like and true to nature, capturing the fine detail of
each fern without the interpretation of an engraver or
artist but these are electrotypes taken from the
original folio print individually hand finished . Each
print is approximately 6 inches wide by 9 ½ inches long. £35
collected £40 including delivery shown through cellophane
bag
Osmunda Regalis
Original antique prints
from “The Nature-Printed British Ferns” by Bradbury and
Evans, published in 1859.The “nature-printed” process
developed by the Austrian Alois Auer and perfected by Henry
Bradbury. In this unique process a plant is pressed into a
plate of soft lead, leaving an impression from which an
electrotype is made. The resultant prints are incredibly
life like and true to nature, capturing the fine detail of
each fern without the interpretation of an engraver or
artist but these are electrotypes taken from the
original folio print individually hand finished . Each
print is approximately 6 inches wide by 9 ½ inches long. £35
collected £40 including delivery shown through cellophane
bag
Scolopendium Vulgare
Original antique prints
from “The Nature-Printed British Ferns” by Bradbury and
Evans, published in 1859.The “nature-printed” process
developed by the Austrian Alois Auer and perfected by Henry
Bradbury. In this unique process a plant is pressed into a
plate of soft lead, leaving an impression from which an
electrotype is made. The resultant prints are incredibly
life like and true to nature, capturing the fine detail of
each fern without the interpretation of an engraver or
artist but these are electrotypes taken from the
original folio print individually hand finished . Each
print is approximately 6 inches wide by 9 ½ inches long. £35
collected £40 including delivery shown through cellophane
bag
Scolopendium Vulgar2
Original antique prints from “The Nature-Printed
British Ferns” by Bradbury and Evans, published in
1859.The “nature-printed” process developed by the
Austrian Alois Auer and perfected by Henry Bradbury. In
this unique process a plant is pressed into a plate of
soft lead, leaving an impression from which an electrotype
is made. The resultant prints are incredibly life like and
true to nature, capturing the fine detail of each fern
without the interpretation of an engraver or artist
but these are electrotypes taken from the original folio
print individually hand finished . Each print is
approximately 6 inches wide by 9 ½ inches long. £35
collected £40 including delivery shown through cellophane
bag
Pteris Aquilina
Original antique prints
from “The Nature-Printed British Ferns” by Bradbury and
Evans, published in 1859.The “nature-printed” process
developed by the Austrian Alois Auer and perfected by Henry
Bradbury. In this unique process a plant is pressed into a
plate of soft lead, leaving an impression from which an
electrotype is made. The resultant prints are incredibly
life like and true to nature, capturing the fine detail of
each fern without the interpretation of an engraver or
artist but these are electrotypes taken from the
original folio print individually hand finished . Each
print is approximately 6 inches wide by 9 ½ inches long. £35
collected £40 including delivery shown through cellophane
bag
Trichomanes Radicans
Original antique prints
from “The Nature-Printed British Ferns” by Bradbury and
Evans, published in 1859.The “nature-printed” process
developed by the Austrian Alois Auer and perfected by Henry
Bradbury. In this unique process a plant is pressed into a
plate of soft lead, leaving an impression from which an
electrotype is made. The resultant prints are incredibly
life like and true to nature, capturing the fine detail of
each fern without the interpretation of an engraver or
artist but these are electrotypes taken from the
original folio print individually hand finished . Each
print is approximately 6 inches wide by 9 ½ inches long. £35
collected £40 including delivery shown through cellophane
bag
Bookplate lithographs
from the 1st edition 'New and Rare Ferns' drawn and
edited by Lowe, E.J Published by Groombridge and Sons,
London, United Kingdom, 1868 The fern frenzy was
called Pterodomania. The movement peaked from the 1840’s
through the 1890’s. And they were associated with women,
fairies, magic and virility. So growing a fern or many
kinds, became a rage. Condition Issues:- Printed to
soft paper that takes the image superbly but tends to tone
and go raggy to the edges easily. Fine and stable once
framed but do take care until framed as they love
fingerprints Image size: 9-1/2 inches high by 6 inches
wide more available Due to size and
postage/paypal costs these are being sold as blocks
hopefully matched nicely with some markings so check the
pic or ask
Always £5 each plus
postage choose + will check + email . . . top right
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larger Bookplate
lithographs from the 1st edition 'New and Rare
Ferns' drawn and edited by Lowe, E.J Published
by Groombridge and Sons, London, United Kingdom, 1868
The fern frenzy was called Pterodomania. The movement peaked
from the 1840’s through the 1890’s. And they were associated
with women, fairies, magic and virility. So growing a fern
or many kinds, became a rage. Condition Issues:-
Printed to soft paper that takes the image superbly but
tends to tone and go raggy to the edges easily. Fine and
stable once framed but do take care until framed as they
love fingerprints Image size: 9-1/2 inches high by 6
inches wide more available .
Some are shown
here say what you like and I will send some pics as
always £5 to £6 each plus postage is under £40 The boxes
of stock change with speed
