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BLUNT, Wilfrid and William T. STEARN. Captain Cook's Florilegium. A selection of engravings from the drawings of plants collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Captain Cook's first voyage to the islands of the Pacific, London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1973.
2°, engraved frontispiece and 29 plates from the original copperplates, title partly in gilt, text in contrasting colours, all printed on Crisbrooke handmade paper by J. Barcham Green, bound in black Nigerian goatskin and Japanese silk paper by Zaehnsdorf, lettered in gilt on upper cover (silk very slightly frayed at edges), black cloth solander case (case slightly bumped and soil-marked).
NO. 81 OF 100 COPIES. Thanks to the participation of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), Captain Cook's first voyage of circumnavigation in the Endeavour was the first organised and properly-equipped voyage of botanical exploration. Although the ship's artist Sydney Parkinson (?1745-1771) has only completed 280 out of 900 drawings at the time of his death on the voyage home, his work was completed in England by 5 other artists under the supervision of Banks and Solander, and from these drawings 743 engraved copperplates were made by 18 engravers over the years 1771-84 and at a cost to Banks of over £7,000. Although proofs of particular plates were sent to other botanists for private use, the present publication, designed by Jock Kinneir, is otherwise the first printing of the plates in an unreduced form. The standard edition of 100 copies was issued for sale at £157.50 in 1973 and 10 special copies at £472.50 were delivered in 1976, giving the work an overall production time of 13 years.
2°, engraved frontispiece and 29 plates from the original copperplates, title partly in gilt, text in contrasting colours, all printed on Crisbrooke handmade paper by J. Barcham Green, bound in black Nigerian goatskin and Japanese silk paper by Zaehnsdorf, lettered in gilt on upper cover (silk very slightly frayed at edges), black cloth solander case (case slightly bumped and soil-marked).
NO. 81 OF 100 COPIES. Thanks to the participation of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), Captain Cook's first voyage of circumnavigation in the Endeavour was the first organised and properly-equipped voyage of botanical exploration. Although the ship's artist Sydney Parkinson (?1745-1771) has only completed 280 out of 900 drawings at the time of his death on the voyage home, his work was completed in England by 5 other artists under the supervision of Banks and Solander, and from these drawings 743 engraved copperplates were made by 18 engravers over the years 1771-84 and at a cost to Banks of over £7,000. Although proofs of particular plates were sent to other botanists for private use, the present publication, designed by Jock Kinneir, is otherwise the first printing of the plates in an unreduced form. The standard edition of 100 copies was issued for sale at £157.50 in 1973 and 10 special copies at £472.50 were delivered in 1976, giving the work an overall production time of 13 years.