Valentine Bartholomew (1799-1879) [ A selection of Flowers adapted principally for Students ]. London: Rodwell & Martin, August 1821-November 1822. Large 4° (364 x 260mm). Without text (as issued). 36 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates by Bartholomew, printed by Charles Hullmandel. (Neatly repaired tear to outer blank margin of the 'Camellia Japonica' plate.) Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, covers panelled in gilt and blind, flat spine titled in gilt with tooling in gilt and blind (extremities scuffed). Provenance : J. Hannay (ink facsimile-signature stamp) -- George M. Hannay (inscription dated 1909). A FINE COPY OF A RARE WORK THAT, ARGUABLY, REPRESENTS THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL USE OF LITHOGRAPHY IN A BOTANICAL WORK. This copy includes the additional 12 plates rarely present and usually unrecorded by the bibliographies byt present in the de Belder and Cleveland copies. The work was a collaborative effort between the 22-year-old Bartholomew and Charles Hullmandel (1789-1850), published with no text and without a title other than that on the original wrappers. Ackermann had published A Series of Thirty Studies from Nature in 1812, but the present volume is the first published botanical work where the lithographer was able to surpass the work of contemporary engravers. All the plates are excellent, with delicate and careful hand-colouring. Little is known of Bartholomew's life: he was born on 18 January 1799, and married Hullmandel's daughter in 1827. He was for many years the Flower Painter in Ordinary firstly to the Duchess of Kent and later to Queen Victoria. Johnston Cleveland 849; cf. Dunthorne 22; cf. Great Flower Books p.48; cf. Nissen BBI 82.
Valentine Bartholomew (1799-1879) [ A selection of Flowers adapted principally for Students ]. London: Rodwell & Martin, August 1821-November 1822. Large 4° (364 x 260mm). Without text (as issued). 36 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates by Bartholomew, printed by Charles Hullmandel. (Neatly repaired tear to outer blank margin of the 'Camellia Japonica' plate.) Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, covers panelled in gilt and blind, flat spine titled in gilt with tooling in gilt and blind (extremities scuffed). Provenance : J. Hannay (ink facsimile-signature stamp) -- George M. Hannay (inscription dated 1909). A FINE COPY OF A RARE WORK THAT, ARGUABLY, REPRESENTS THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL USE OF LITHOGRAPHY IN A BOTANICAL WORK. This copy includes the additional 12 plates rarely present and usually unrecorded by the bibliographies byt present in the de Belder and Cleveland copies. The work was a collaborative effort between the 22-year-old Bartholomew and Charles Hullmandel (1789-1850), published with no text and without a title other than that on the original wrappers. Ackermann had published A Series of Thirty Studies from Nature in 1812, but the present volume is the first published botanical work where the lithographer was able to surpass the work of contemporary engravers. All the plates are excellent, with delicate and careful hand-colouring. Little is known of Bartholomew's life: he was born on 18 January 1799, and married Hullmandel's daughter in 1827. He was for many years the Flower Painter in Ordinary firstly to the Duchess of Kent and later to Queen Victoria. Johnston Cleveland 849; cf. Dunthorne 22; cf. Great Flower Books p.48; cf. Nissen BBI 82.
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