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Mattioli's herbal : a short account of its illustrations, with a print from an original woodblock / [John Bidwell].
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio QK98.15 .B53 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bidwell, John, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mattioli, Pietro Andrea, 1501-1577. Commentarii in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis ... de materia medica--Illustrations.
- Mattioli, Pietro Andrea.
- Herbals--Illustrations--History--To 1500.
- Herbals.
- Botanical illustration--16th century.
- Botanical illustration.
- Block printing.
- Pierpont Morgan Library.
- Herbals--Illustrations.
- History.
- Genre:
- Pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 13 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : facsimile ; 31 cm
- Manufacture:
- Gloucestershire : Whittington Press
- Other Title:
- Picturing natural history.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, [2003]
- Notes:
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Picturing natural history : flora and fauna in drawings, manuscripts, and printed books", held at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Feb. 12-May 4, 2003.
- Text signed: John Bidwell.
- With half-title.
- "This edition of 350 copies is set in 16-point Monotype Centaur and printed on Zerkall mould-made paper by John Randle at The Whittington Press, Whittington Court, Gloucestershire, and John Grice at The Evergreen Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire. Each copy contains a print from the original woodblock of asarum from Mattioli's Herbal of 1562. Three hundred copies are half-bound in buckram, and fifty copies are half-bound in morocco, in a slipcase, with the print hand colored by Louisa Hare. ..."--Colophon.
- Unnumbered copies also issued, with joint imprint: The Morgan Library, New York and The Whittington Press, Gloucestershire.
- Plate inserted in a back pocket.
- Includes bibliographical references (page [15]).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Friends of the Library Endowment Fund.
- Library has copy no. 175.
- Whittington 4: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck. Edition number 2 of 350. Half-bound in morocco. In slipcase. Plate in back pocket is hand-colored. Ink inscription with author ink autograph on front free endleaf: My respects to Jean-François Vilain who shares my appreciation of hot metal ; John Bidwell.
- ISBN:
- 0875981399
- OCLC:
- 51742830
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