A Second Century of Orchidaceous Plants light foxing to endpapers

light foxing to endpapers

text and fine color plates are bright and clean as is the fine binding on this work

Custom bookplate of Walter Necker on the front endpaper

A very through monograph of great regional import in an exceedingly attractive binding

119 partially hand-colored plates (as called for)

A Second Century of Orchidaceous Plants light foxing to endpapersPp. viii, with 100 full page hand colored lithographs by W. Fitch, each plate is accompanied by one or two pages of descriptive text. Publishers original blind stamped green pebble cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, and with the stamped gilt seal (probably after Bateman) on the front cover, lg 4to (12. 5 x 10 inches). This fine publication is completely separate work from Hookers volume A Century of Orchidaceous Plants published in