Lilium Cordifolium, by H. J. Elwes Black Pepper

Lilium Cordifolium, by H. J. Elwes Black PepperTHE VICTORIAN ERA H. J. Elwes (1846 1922), a widely traveled naturalist explorer who first became interested in lilies on a trip to the Himalayas. His folio, "A Monograph of the Genus Lilium" was issued on several stages between 1877 and 1880. The plates were drawn by H. J. Elwes, Lilian Snelling and Margaret Stones. H. J. Elwes wrote the text which included all known lilies at that time. The original folios were primarily hand colored lithographs

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He also published a volume of black and white antique vases (later hand colored) from a private collection

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We have chosen 12 of the most popular plates to reproduce in full color offset

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Image: 17 x 20"            Paper: 20 x 26"

Readers who looked for records of the past in order to measure the progress of the present