This is not a complete book--it is a single sheet containing an original antique hand-colored botanical print. Joseph Paxton was perhaps the most significant 19th century English botanist, the designer of the famed Crystal Palace, and the editor of Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. This print is from the 14th volume of that magazine, published in 1848. Drawn and lithographed by Samuel Holden, it is a superb brilliantly-colored example of the flowers in the magazine. The lithograph is accompanied by the original text pages explaining the origin, cultivation, and uses of the flower. The print is clean and bright, with a hint of toning of the background and the usual stab holes along the binding edge. Size: 9" by 6 3/8". Seller Inventory # W1255

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Bibliographic Details

Title: "RHODODENDRON ARBOREUM PAXTONI" (MR. ...

Publisher: William S. Orr & Co., London

Publication Date: 1848

Binding: Paper

Illustrator: Samuel Holden

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: Fine Art Print

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Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art is both a general antiquarian bookstore and a fine art gallery. In our open by appointment shop we have 3,000 books for collectors and researchers. In the next few months all of that inventory will be listed on Abebooks; in the meantime, please feel free to make requests. We also have collectible photographs (including hundreds of stereoviews), autographs (many astronauts), original lithographs & etchings by important artists, and much more. Please feel free to inquire.

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Tennyson Williams Books and Fine Art
VA, U.S.A.

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Payment by check, money order, Paypal, Abebooks payment. Libraries and dealers known to us net 30 days. Reciprocal courtesy to the trade. All domestic shipments include delivery confirmation. Please phone or e-mail to reserve books since all items are subject to prior sale.

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