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RAVENSCROFT, Edward James (1816-1890). The Pinetum Britannicum. A descriptive account of Hardy Coniferous Trees, cultivated in Great Britain . Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & Son, [1863]-1884.
RAVENSCROFT, Edward James (1816-1890). The Pinetum Britannicum. A descriptive account of Hardy Coniferous Trees, cultivated in Great Britain . Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & Son, [1863]-1884. 3 volumes, 2 o (555 x 417 mm). Subscriber's list, errata slip, 58 plates after J. Black, W. Richardson, R.K. Greville, J. Wallace and others (comprising: 51 hand-colored lithographed plates; 1 tinted lithographed plate; 2 uncolored lithographed plates; 4 mounted albumen prints by F. Mason Good; one sheet with 4 lithographed maps), numerous illustrations. (Scant spotting.) Contemporary green half morocco, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, volumes one and 2 with brown morocco lettering pieces gilt, top edges gilt (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION of one of the great British works on pines. The Pinetum Britannicum is regarded as a landmark publication on conifers, and both Napoleon III and Queen Victoria subscribed to its first edition. This copy includes 5 plates present as both cancels and cancellanda (the cancels are bound at the back of volume 3). The imprints of the cancellanda are as follows: vol. one pl.11 by W. Richardson; vol. 2 pl.29 by James Black; pl.31 by Robert Black for James Black; pl.32 by W.H .McFarlane; vol. 3 pl.37 by F. Schenk from a photograph. All hand-colored. The corresponding cancels are: pl.11 Robert Black for James Black (hand-colored); pl.29 by James Black (black and white); pl.31 by J.D. Carmichael for R.K. Greville (hand-colored); pl.32 by James Black (black and white); pl.37 by W.H. McFarlane from a photograph (tinted lithographed plate). These plates illustrate: Pinus Sabiniana, Picea Nobilis, Cupressus Lawsoniana, Cupressus Macrocarpa, and Sequoia Wellingtonia. Nissen BBI 1588; Great Flower Books p. 71; Stafleu-Cowan TL2 8685. (3)