A second century of ferns : being figures with brief descriptions of one hundred new, or rare, or imperfectly known species of ferns from various parts of the world / by Sir William Jackson Hooker
xii pages, 100 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Date:
1864
1861
Notes:
A reissue of the 1861 edition.
Continues Jackson's 1854 publication, A century of ferns (which also was issued as the 10th and final volume of Hooker's Icones plantarum).
Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.
The plates are signed: Fitch del. et lith.; Pamplin imp.
Most of the plates are hand-colored; a few have actually been printed in green ink.
Plates 31 and 32 apparently misnumbered, matching to text for 32 and 31, respectively? The plate numbering has been corrected by hand by a former owner in the Cullman Library copy.
Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, 917
Stafleu, F.A. Taxonomic literature (2nd ed.), 3020
Also available online.
SCNHRB copy 39088006151302 has text and plates for 41 through 68 bound in a confusing order. After plate and text for 40, the order of plates is: 63, 57-61, 64-65, 62, 66-67, 55-56, 51-54, 41-50, 68-100. After plate and text for 40, the order of text is: 64, 57-62, 65-66, 63, 67-68, 55-56, 52-54, 41-51, 69-100.
SCNHRB copy has stamp on title page: Smithsonian Institution Special Collections, Sep. 26, 1929. With stamp on page [v]: J.D.S. [=John Donnell Smith].
SCNHRB copy has a modern green cloth library binding with gilt-lettered spine and all edges gilt.
