Lot Essay
Including: Young Plants, Frontispiece; Opening Flower; Underside of Leaf; Intermediate Stages of Bloom; Complete Bloom; View of the Form of the Flower
Details
WILLIAM SHARP (1803-1875)
John Fisk Allen, Victoria Regia or The Great Water Lily of America, Boston, Dutton and Wentworth, 1854
the complete set of six chromolithographs, with text and title pages, on wove paper, plates 1 and 3 with full margins, plates 2, 4, 5 and 6 with margins cut to approximately 7/8-inch on each side, occasional short tears (some repaired), skinned patches or pale stains in the margins, plate 2 with a made-up loss in the right margin, plates 2, 4, 5 and 6 with skinning on the reverse, all six plates with other minor defects, the text and title sheets soiled and with some other minor defects
L. approx. 15 1/2 x 20 7/8in. (393 x 530mm.)
Plates 2, 4, 5 and 6 S. approx. 430 x 575mm.
Plates 1 and 3 S. approx 560 x 740mm.the set (6)
John Fisk Allen, Victoria Regia or The Great Water Lily of America, Boston, Dutton and Wentworth, 1854
the complete set of six chromolithographs, with text and title pages, on wove paper, plates 1 and 3 with full margins, plates 2, 4, 5 and 6 with margins cut to approximately 7/8-inch on each side, occasional short tears (some repaired), skinned patches or pale stains in the margins, plate 2 with a made-up loss in the right margin, plates 2, 4, 5 and 6 with skinning on the reverse, all six plates with other minor defects, the text and title sheets soiled and with some other minor defects
L. approx. 15 1/2 x 20 7/8in. (393 x 530mm.)
Plates 2, 4, 5 and 6 S. approx. 430 x 575mm.
Plates 1 and 3 S. approx 560 x 740mm.the set (6)