Illustrations of North American pitcherplants by Mary Vaux Walcott. Descriptions and notes on distribution, by Edgar T. Wherry. Notes on insect associates, by Frank Morton Jones
3 preliminary leaves, 34 pages, 15 leaves of plates color illustrations, maps 37 cm
Type:
Books
Authors' autographs (Provenance)
Progressive proofs
Place:
North America
Date:
1935
Notes:
"Eight of [these plates] were published in the writer's North American Wild Flowers. These, with the others, mostly new forms recently collected, comprise all the known members of the family that are native in North America" --Foreword
Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress not included in paging
Edition limited to 500 copies, signed by the artist
Issued in portfolio with a mounted metal seal of the Smithsonian Institution
Stafleu, F.A. Taxonomic literature (2nd ed.), 16,551
SCNHRB has two copies, both incomplete. AAPGRB has one copy
SCNHRB copy 1 (39088015278559) is imperfect? : the signed and numbered limited edition statement (a label?) and the original portfolio are apparently wanting. (There is no evidence that a non-signed, non-numbered edition was issued in 1935)
SCNHRB copy 1 has stamps: "For reference. Not to be taken from this room. S.T.R.I. Lbrary"; accession number: 805
SCNHRB copy 1 has a later archival paperboard portfolio with green cloth spine
SCNHRB copy 2 (39088016537847) has the [6] preliminary pages, and plates 1-5, with letterpress descriptions for plates 1-6 (the 34 pages of text and plates 6-15, and the letterpress descriptions for plates 7-15, are wanting)
SCNHRB copy 2 has the original portfolio with black embossed leather spine, beige cloth-covered boards, a silver Smithsonian Institution seal on front, and a gilt-tooled spine. However, there is no signed and numbered edition statement in this copy, either
AAPGRB copy (39088018468009; N40.1 .W158S6 1935 folio AAPGRB) is signed at the end of the Foreword in ink: Mary Vaux Walcott. In the lower left corner of the last page of the Foreword, the following information is handwritten in ink, apparently by Walcott: copy no. 1, M.V.W., 11-11-1935
AAPGRB copy has fifteen additional plates laid in, apparently proof copies, lacking numbering. These unnumbered plates include full-color duplicate images from plates 2-5, 10, 13-15; in addition, there are two additional full color copies of plate 10 ("Southern pitcherplant") plus single- or two-color progressive proof impressions of the same plate in yellow, magenta, magenta and yellow, cyan, and black. One of the duplicate plates is signed: M.V.W. 3.31.1933
AAPGRB copy has been donated by Erin Younger
AAPGRB copy has the publisher's gray cloth portfolio with gilt-tooled black leather spine, with an oxidized silver metal Smithsonian Institution seal mounted on the front cover and remnants of the gray cloth ties
Contents:
Foreword -- Illustrations and descriptions of Pitcherplants. 1. California Pitcherplant. Chrysamphora californica (Torrey) Greene ; 2. Green Pitcherplant. Sarracenia oreophila (Kearney) Wherry ; 3. Pale Pitcherplant. Sarracenia sledgei Macfarlane ; 4. Yellow Pitcherplant (Trumpetleaf). Sarracenia flava Linnaeus ; 5. Red Pitcherplant. Sarracenia jonesii Wherry ; 6. Whitetop Pitcherplant (Drummond Pitcherplant). Sarracenia drummondii Croom ; 7. Sweet Pitcherplant. Sarracenia rubra Walter ; 8. Hooded Pitcherplant. Sarracenia minor Walter ; 9. Parrot Pitcherplant. Sarracenia psittacina Michaux ; 10. Southern Pitcherplant. Sarracenia purpurea venosa (Rafinesque) Wherry ; 11. Northern Pitcherplant. Sarracenia purpurea gibbosa (Rafinesque) Wherry ; 12. Catesby Pitcherplant. x Sarracenia catesbaei Elliott ; 13. Sarracenia drummondii x rubra ; 14. Sarracenia rubra x purpurea venosa ; 15. Sarracenia minor x psittacina -- Distribution of the North American Pitcherplants / by Edgar T. Wherry -- Pitcherplants and their Insect associates / by Frank Morton Jones
