Bateman, James | A Second Century of Orchidaceous Plants, first edition

Bateman, James

A Second Century of Orchidaceous Plants. Selected from the subjects published in Curtis' Botanical Magazine since the issue of the First Century. Ashford, Kent: L. Reeve & Co., 1867

4to (313 x 253mm). 100 handcolored lithographed plates by and after W.H. Fitch (numbered 101–200), half-title; occasional light spotting, printed correction slip pasted over imprint on title-page. Publisher’s green cloth gilt; extremities rubbed, endpapers browned.

First edition. A continuation of A Century of Orchidaceous Plants, published by William Jackson Hooker in 1849.

REFERENCES:

Great Flower Books, p. 49; Nissen BBI 87; Stafleu TL2 344