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NATURE PRINTING -- Sherman Foote DENTON (1856-1937). As Nature Shows Them: Butterflies and Moths of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains. Boston: Bradlee Whidden, 1897-1900. 2 volumes in 8 original parts, large 8° (255 x 178mm). 110 'nature-printed' plates mounted on 56 leaves, about 400 illustrations, some full-page. Original orange paper wrappers, letterpress title on upper cover (stitching of five parts broken, small tear to backstrip of part 8), all contained within a single blue morocco-backed cloth slipcase.
NUMBR 186 OF 500 COPIES. 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.' R. Cave & G. Wakemen Typographia Naturalis (1967) p. 33; Nissen ZBI 1079. (8)
NUMBR 186 OF 500 COPIES. 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.' R. Cave & G. Wakemen Typographia Naturalis (1967) p. 33; Nissen ZBI 1079. (8)
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