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SANDER, HENRY FREDERICK CONRAD. 1847-1920. Reichenbachia, Orchids illustrated and described. London: J. French for Henry Sotheran & Co and F. Sander & Co. of St. Albans, 1892, 1895.
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SANDER, HENRY FREDERICK CONRAD. 1847-1920.
Reichenbachia, Orchids illustrated and described. London: J. French for Henry Sotheran & Co and F. Sander & Co. of St. Albans, 1892, 1895.
2 series in 4 volumes, folio (525 x 390 mm). First series mounted on guards throughout. Text in English, French and German, 192 fine chromolithographic plates, most finished by hand, by Joseph Mansell, G. Leutzsch and J.L. Macfarlane after Henry Moon, W.H. Fitch, A.H. Loch and C. Storer, wood-engraved illustrations. Contemporary red half morocco, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, edges gilt, some rubbing to joints and edges; occasional some minor marginal darkening, light offsetting to blanks facing plates, a few plates with spotting a few preliminary leaves loose in second series.
FIRST EDITION of this "important and authoritative work for orchid growers" (Great Flower Books), named in honor of Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1824-1889), botanist and celebrated orchidologist. "By modern standards the work was of a monstrous size ... Where the orchid was concerned, Sander never spared himself, but even so, the care lavished on the Reichenbachia still provokes astonishment. Apart from the elegance of Moon's drawings, the technical standards would have been a tribute to any large printing house. The blocks were hand-made, out of wood; and the chromolithographs were produced by the use of as many as twenty inks. The cost to Sander was enormous, and it is said to have been well over £7,000 ... It is no wonder that Sander often remarked in later years that the project almost ruined him" (A. Swinson, Frederick Sander: The Orchid King, 1970). Great Flower Books p 75; Nissen BBI 1722; Stafleu-Cowan TL2 10.219.
2 series in 4 volumes, folio (525 x 390 mm). First series mounted on guards throughout. Text in English, French and German, 192 fine chromolithographic plates, most finished by hand, by Joseph Mansell, G. Leutzsch and J.L. Macfarlane after Henry Moon, W.H. Fitch, A.H. Loch and C. Storer, wood-engraved illustrations. Contemporary red half morocco, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, edges gilt, some rubbing to joints and edges; occasional some minor marginal darkening, light offsetting to blanks facing plates, a few plates with spotting a few preliminary leaves loose in second series.
FIRST EDITION of this "important and authoritative work for orchid growers" (Great Flower Books), named in honor of Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1824-1889), botanist and celebrated orchidologist. "By modern standards the work was of a monstrous size ... Where the orchid was concerned, Sander never spared himself, but even so, the care lavished on the Reichenbachia still provokes astonishment. Apart from the elegance of Moon's drawings, the technical standards would have been a tribute to any large printing house. The blocks were hand-made, out of wood; and the chromolithographs were produced by the use of as many as twenty inks. The cost to Sander was enormous, and it is said to have been well over £7,000 ... It is no wonder that Sander often remarked in later years that the project almost ruined him" (A. Swinson, Frederick Sander: The Orchid King, 1970). Great Flower Books p 75; Nissen BBI 1722; Stafleu-Cowan TL2 10.219.
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