Asplenium Adiantum - nigrum acutum Black Spleenwort

by Thomas Moore

$375 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A beautiful nature-printed plate from Moore's The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland . Moore's important work on nature printing was one of the first of the genre printed in England. The beautifully executed plates were produced under the direction of Henry Bradbury, England's first nature printer, and are considered to be among the finest pieces of nature printing ever completed. The plates were produced ... by passing the plant, under pressure, between a plate of soft

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