[Rarebooks] FS: Wolfe, Jacob Bigelow’s American Medical Botany, 1817-1821

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Offered today: 

I have reduced the price on this lovely Bird and Bull Press item rather
aggressively. 

WOLFE, RICHARD J. _Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany, 1817-1821.
An examination of the origin, printing, binding and distribution of
America's first color plate book. With special emphasis on the manner of
making and printing its colored plates_. North Hills, PA; Boston, MA:
Bird & Bull Press; Boston Medical Library, 1979. 8vo. 10 x 6 1/2 inches.
121, [3] pp. Title page with a decorative border in 2 colors by Fritz
Eberhardt, 2 original (1 hand-colored) engraved plates of _Sanguinaria
Canadensis_ (Bloodroot) produced for the first edition of Jacob
Bigelow's _American Medical Botany_; text clean, unmarked, minor foxing
to margins of original plate. Quarter brown morocco, decorative paper
over boards, spine titled in gilt, morocco tips; binding square and
tight, spine with a whiff of fading. Muir Dawson's copy without
distinguishing marks. Fine. 

$ 120 

LIMITED EDITION, of approximately 300 copies, this is number 325,
composed in Baskerville types, binding by E. G. Parrot II, cover papers
are a reproduction of an early nineteenth-century woodblock paper. This
is an important contribution to the literature of printing and
publishing history, being an examination of the production of America's
first color plate book. At the time of this publication, Richard J.
Wolfe was Joseph Garland Librarian at the Boston Medical Library and
Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts in the Francis A. Countway Library
of Medicine. REFER-ENCE: Taylor and Morris, _Twenty-One Years of Bird &
Bull_, A21. 

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