SANDER, HENRY FREDERICK CONRAD. Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described. [First and] Second Series. London: H. Sotheran & Co., St. Albans: F. Sander & Co. 1888-1894. 4 vols., imperial folio, 678 x 510mm. (26 5/8 x 20in.), including guards, FINELY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO, covers with richly gilt borders of leaf, flower and other rolls, multiple gilt fillets, large central panel with corner ornament, the John Rylands monogram at optical center, spines in seven compartments with six raised bands, lavishly gilt-tooled, and gilt lettered; board edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., others uncut by ZAEHNSDORF; stamp-signed by them on each upper turn-in and with their gilt exhibition stamp on each lower paste-down (bindings of Second Series dated 1895), some very minor wear to binding extremities, one extreme blank corner chipped from Second Series plate 49, the beginnings only of some of this work's customary tissue adhesion, unboxed. IMPERIAL EDITION, NUMBER 89 OF 100 COPIES signed by the author. 192 chromolithographed plates by Joseph Mansell mostly after H.G. Moon, others after G. Hansen, A.H. Loch, J. Macfarlane and C. Storer, all the plates mounted on thick cards, text in English, French and German. Stafleu TL-2 10.219.A MAGNIFICENT COPY. (4)

SANDER, HENRY FREDERICK CONRAD. Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described. [First and] Second Series. London: H. Sotheran & Co., St. Albans: F. Sander & Co. 1888-1894. 4 vols., imperial folio, 678 x 510mm. (26 5/8 x 20in.), including guards, FINELY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO, covers with richly gilt borders of leaf, flower and other rolls, multiple gilt fillets, large central panel with corner ornament, the John Rylands monogram at optical center, spines in seven compartments with six raised bands, lavishly gilt-tooled, and gilt lettered; board edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., others uncut by ZAEHNSDORF; stamp-signed by them on each upper turn-in and with their gilt exhibition stamp on each lower paste-down (bindings of Second Series dated 1895), some very minor wear to binding extremities, one extreme blank corner chipped from Second Series plate 49, the beginnings only of some of this work's customary tissue adhesion, unboxed. IMPERIAL EDITION, NUMBER 89 OF 100 COPIES signed by the author. 192 chromolithographed plates by Joseph Mansell mostly after H.G. Moon, others after G. Hansen, A.H. Loch, J. Macfarlane and C. Storer, all the plates mounted on thick cards, text in English, French and German. Stafleu TL-2 10.219. A MAGNIFICENT COPY. (4)

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SANDER, HENRY FREDERICK CONRAD. Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described. [First and] Second Series. London: H. Sotheran & Co., St. Albans: F. Sander & Co. 1888-1894. 4 vols., imperial folio, 678 x 510mm. (26 5/8 x 20in.), including guards, FINELY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO, covers with richly gilt borders of leaf, flower and other rolls, multiple gilt fillets, large central panel with corner ornament, the John Rylands monogram at optical center, spines in seven compartments with six raised bands, lavishly gilt-tooled, and gilt lettered; board edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., others uncut by ZAEHNSDORF; stamp-signed by them on each upper turn-in and with their gilt exhibition stamp on each lower paste-down (bindings of Second Series dated 1895), some very minor wear to binding extremities, one extreme blank corner chipped from Second Series plate 49, the beginnings only of some of this work's customary tissue adhesion, unboxed. IMPERIAL EDITION, NUMBER 89 OF 100 COPIES signed by the author. 192 chromolithographed plates by Joseph Mansell mostly after H.G. Moon, others after G. Hansen, A.H. Loch, J. Macfarlane and C. Storer, all the plates mounted on thick cards, text in English, French and German. Stafleu TL-2 10.219.

A MAGNIFICENT COPY. (4)

來源

1. Mrs. John Rylands and The John Rylands Library, Manchester, bookplates dated 1894. Upon the death of her husband in 1888, Mrs. Rylands decided to buy books as a memorial to him. Among her early purchases were expensive modern books, including current works on ornithology and botany. In 1892, for #210,000, she bought the Althorp Library of classical literature formed by George John, second Earl Spencer. It is possible, but unlikely, that John Poyntz, fifth Earl Spencer owned this copy of the First Series of Reichenbachia. Mrs. Rylands received the freedom of the city of Manchester at the opening of the Rylands Library in 1899.

2. John Rylands University Library of Manchester (following the Library's merger with the University in 1972), specially printed "Withdrawn from stock April 1988" bookplates on lower free endpages (sale, Sotheby's London 14 April 1988, lot 98, the catalogue twice describing its provenance as Althorp while it is clearly a Rylands book!).