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J. Barillet
Les Pensées histoire culture - multiplication - emploi... ouvrage orné de nombreuses vignettes et de 25 chromolithographies exécutées d'après les spécimens de F. Lesemann... publié sous la direction de J. Rothschild. Paris: Charles Lahure for J. Rothschild, 1869. Large 4° (345 x 260mm). Half-title, title printed in grey and black with vignette, 25 chromolithographic plates, each with two-tone grey-printed borders, printed by the Imperial Printing Office in Vienna. (Some general light spotting and browning to plates, light browning to outer blank margins of text.) Near-contemporary French red half morocco gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with repeat tooling in gilt, original upper cloth cover bound in, top edge gilt.
LIMITED EDITION OF 200 COPIES. A good copy of this monograph on the best available varieties of Pansy, overseen and published by Joseph Rothschild for the Société Botanique de France. Rothschild seems to have been the guiding force behind this publication which is an amalgamation of Barillet's text with the plates and translated text of Lesemann's Viola tricolor mittelst künstlicher Befruchtung gezogen (Vienna: circa 1860). The Pansy 'has been so long cultivated that its source is a matter of uncertainty. As we now see it, it is a purely artificial production, differing considerably from any wild plant known. It is generally supposed to be merely a cultivated form of Viola tricolor... while others assert it to be the result of hybridization between V. tricolor and other species such as V. altaica, V. grandiflora, &c. Some experiments of M.Carrière go to show that seeds of the wild V. tricolor will produce some forms so like those of the cultivated pansy that it is reasonable to assume that that flower has originated from the wild plant by continuous selection'. (Encyclopedia Britannica Cambridge: 1911, vol.XX, p.681). Nissen BBI 76; Stafleu and Cowan 20212.
Les Pensées histoire culture - multiplication - emploi... ouvrage orné de nombreuses vignettes et de 25 chromolithographies exécutées d'après les spécimens de F. Lesemann... publié sous la direction de J. Rothschild. Paris: Charles Lahure for J. Rothschild, 1869. Large 4° (345 x 260mm). Half-title, title printed in grey and black with vignette, 25 chromolithographic plates, each with two-tone grey-printed borders, printed by the Imperial Printing Office in Vienna. (Some general light spotting and browning to plates, light browning to outer blank margins of text.) Near-contemporary French red half morocco gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with repeat tooling in gilt, original upper cloth cover bound in, top edge gilt.
LIMITED EDITION OF 200 COPIES. A good copy of this monograph on the best available varieties of Pansy, overseen and published by Joseph Rothschild for the Société Botanique de France. Rothschild seems to have been the guiding force behind this publication which is an amalgamation of Barillet's text with the plates and translated text of Lesemann's Viola tricolor mittelst künstlicher Befruchtung gezogen (Vienna: circa 1860). The Pansy 'has been so long cultivated that its source is a matter of uncertainty. As we now see it, it is a purely artificial production, differing considerably from any wild plant known. It is generally supposed to be merely a cultivated form of Viola tricolor... while others assert it to be the result of hybridization between V. tricolor and other species such as V. altaica, V. grandiflora, &c. Some experiments of M.Carrière go to show that seeds of the wild V. tricolor will produce some forms so like those of the cultivated pansy that it is reasonable to assume that that flower has originated from the wild plant by continuous selection'. (Encyclopedia Britannica Cambridge: 1911, vol.XX, p.681). Nissen BBI 76; Stafleu and Cowan 20212.
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