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BYAM, Lydia. A Collection of Fruits from the West Indies, drawn and coloured from nature. London: Printed, at the Oriental Press, by Wilson & Co, for the author, 1800.
2° (480 x 290mm.). Letterpress title with woodcut printer's device, dedication to Princess Elizabeth, 3 leaves of text, 9 hand-coloured engraved and aquatint plates, tissue guards. (Some light soiling to margins.) Contemporary marbled boards, uncut (rubbed, backstrip repaired in modern cloth). Provenance: Mary W. Jarvis (early-nineteenth-century inscription on title-page "Mary W. Jarvis from her Uncle Blackwell. Nov 2: 1827 Clifton".)
One of the rarest works on West Indian fruit. Nissen Supplement 309 na; not in Dunthorne; Hunt 749 on Byam's Collection of Exotics refers, in passing, to this work as "even rarer" than the Exotics. Hunt asserts that Lydia Byam was the elder sister of William Gunthorpe, Governor of Antigua. The fruits depicted comprise the West indian sorrel, cashew, granadilla, sea-side grape, rose apple, wythe apple or mountain strawberry, avocado pear, date tree and cerasee.
2° (480 x 290mm.). Letterpress title with woodcut printer's device, dedication to Princess Elizabeth, 3 leaves of text, 9 hand-coloured engraved and aquatint plates, tissue guards. (Some light soiling to margins.) Contemporary marbled boards, uncut (rubbed, backstrip repaired in modern cloth). Provenance: Mary W. Jarvis (early-nineteenth-century inscription on title-page "Mary W. Jarvis from her Uncle Blackwell. Nov 2: 1827 Clifton".)
One of the rarest works on West Indian fruit. Nissen Supplement 309 na; not in Dunthorne; Hunt 749 on Byam's Collection of Exotics refers, in passing, to this work as "even rarer" than the Exotics. Hunt asserts that Lydia Byam was the elder sister of William Gunthorpe, Governor of Antigua. The fruits depicted comprise the West indian sorrel, cashew, granadilla, sea-side grape, rose apple, wythe apple or mountain strawberry, avocado pear, date tree and cerasee.