细节
SHERMAN FOOTE DENTON
As Nature Shows Them Butterflies and Moths of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains. Boston: Bradlee Whidden, [1897-]1900. 2 volumes, large 8 (245 x 173mm). 110 nature-printed plates mounted on 56 leaves, about 400 illustrations, some full-page. Contemporary red levant morocco gilt, covers with elaborate cornerpieces incorporating styllised foliage surrounding a naturalistic butterfly, spine in five compartments with raised bands, lettered in the largest, the others with repeat tooling with centrally-placed small butterfly, gilt turn-ins, g.e.
LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 77. A VERY FINE SET. To quote the author "It is the aim of the present work to represent our native butterflies and moths not as dried and mutilated specimens in a cabinet, with pins stuck through them, nor as dissected fragments for scientific classification, but as one sees them in our woods and fields, fresh and lovely... The colored plates, or Nature Prints, used in the work, are direct transfers from the insects themselves; that is to say, the scales of the wings of the insects are transferred to the paper while the bodies are printed from engravings and afterward colored by hand... And what magnificent illustrations they are, embodying all the beauty and perfection of the specimens theselves! As I have to make over fifty thousand of these transfers for the entire edition, not being able to get any one to help me who would do the work as I desired it done... some idea of the labor in connection with preparing the material for the publication may be obtained". Nissen ZBI 1079. (2)
As Nature Shows Them Butterflies and Moths of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains. Boston: Bradlee Whidden, [1897-]1900. 2 volumes, large 8 (245 x 173mm). 110 nature-printed plates mounted on 56 leaves, about 400 illustrations, some full-page. Contemporary red levant morocco gilt, covers with elaborate cornerpieces incorporating styllised foliage surrounding a naturalistic butterfly, spine in five compartments with raised bands, lettered in the largest, the others with repeat tooling with centrally-placed small butterfly, gilt turn-ins, g.e.
LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 77. A VERY FINE SET. To quote the author "It is the aim of the present work to represent our native butterflies and moths not as dried and mutilated specimens in a cabinet, with pins stuck through them, nor as dissected fragments for scientific classification, but as one sees them in our woods and fields, fresh and lovely... The colored plates, or Nature Prints, used in the work, are direct transfers from the insects themselves; that is to say, the scales of the wings of the insects are transferred to the paper while the bodies are printed from engravings and afterward colored by hand... And what magnificent illustrations they are, embodying all the beauty and perfection of the specimens theselves! As I have to make over fifty thousand of these transfers for the entire edition, not being able to get any one to help me who would do the work as I desired it done... some idea of the labor in connection with preparing the material for the publication may be obtained". Nissen ZBI 1079. (2)