[Album of Hand Drawn Mushrooms]

(MUSHROOMS)

Published by [c. 1800]., 1800

About this Item

Small folio. Contemporary half calf over patterned boards, colour illustrated endpapers, all edges blue-green, held in a recent bespoke mushroom cloth Solander box, gilt lettered to the spine. 122 charming and delicately hand drawn and coloured illustrations of mushrooms, each hand numbered to the corner, plus another in the same hand loosely inserted, some, but by no means all, of the illustrations captioned in pencil. Spine very worn with losses, the joints cracked and the boards still held by the strings. No name is attached to the volume or the illustrations but whoever compiled the album clearly demonstrates their affinity with the subject and a great deal of artistic skill and, with no way of knowing if the illustrations were intended to be published, one must therefore assume the illustrations were done by a gifted amateur. It is not dated but the appearance of the binding and the very distinctive endpapers suggest that it is either very late 18th or early 19th century. Seller Inventory # 45246

Bibliographic Details

Title: [Album of Hand Drawn Mushrooms]

Publisher: [c. 1800].

Publication Date: 1800