C1880

Agaricus (Psathyra) Fibrillosus.

Artist:

M.J.B - Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803 - 1899)

Lithograph of mushrooms from Illustrations of British Fungi by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825 – 1914) who was an eminent mycologist, and the founder of the journal ‘Grevillea and one of the great promoters of mycology in England. ‘Cookes’s most ambitious … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Agaricus (Psathyra) Fibrillosus.

Date:

C1880

Artist:

M.J.B - Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803 - 1899)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Lithograph printed in colour.

Image Size:

190mm

x 115mm

Paper Size:

156mm

x 237mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1880

Description:

Lithograph of mushrooms from Illustrations of British Fungi by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825 – 1914) who was an eminent mycologist, and the founder of the journal ‘Grevillea and one of the great promoters of mycology in England. ‘Cookes’s most ambitious work, the “Illustrations of British Fungi, is a monumental work of labor and patient application. I am told that not only did he make the original drawings of the plants, but that the figures were actually transferred by Cooke to the stones from which they were printed’ (C.G. Lloyd, Letter no. 57). ‘The number published of the Illustrations of British Fungi must have been very small as there were only 70 subscribers in Britain when volume 2 was issued.’ Stafleu & Cowan

References;

Nissen BBI

References:
Nissen, C. Die Botanische Buchillustration. Stuttgart 1966:.

M.J.B - Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803 - 1899)

Berkeley was born at Benefield, Northamptonshire, and educated at Rugby School and Christ's College, Cambridge. Taking holy order in 1837, and vicar of Sibbertoft, near Market Harborough, in 1868. He acquired an enthusiastic love of cryptogamic botany (lichens) in his early years, and soon was recognised as the leading British authority on fungi and plant pathology. Christ's College made him an honorary fellow in 1883. As the founder of British mycology, his significant work is contained in the account of native British fungi in Sir William Jackson Hooker's British Flora (1836), in his Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany (1857), and in his Outlines of British Fungology (1860). His herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is one of the world's most extensive, containing over 9000 specimens as well as numerous notes and sketches

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