Stirpes novæ, aut minus cognitæ, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit Carolus-Ludovicus L'Héritier, Dom. de Brutelle, in Aulâ Juvaminum Parisiensi, Regis Consiliaris.
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Title
Stirpes novæ, aut minus cognitæ, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit Carolus-Ludovicus L'Heritier, Dom. de Brutelle, in Aula Juvaminum Parisiensi, Regis Consiliaris.
Author or creator
L'Heritier de Brutelle, Charles Louis (1746-1800).
Record type
Book
Publication details
Parisiis, 1784 [-1785]
Shelf mark
581.9 (3) LHE VOL. 1
Scope & content
This work was originally published in six fascicules, nos. I-II dated 1784 and the rest 1785, but actually issued between 1785 and 1791. Dates of publication as given by Stafleu (differing somewhat from the list given by Britten and Woodward, a typescript copy of which is pasted in each volume): I, March 1785; II, January 1786 [B&W had said April 1786]; III, March 1786; IV, March-April 1788; V, January 1789; VI, September 1791. Each fascicule had its own title-page and list of contents; with fascicule 6 a Conspectus for a 7th fascicule was also issued, but no more of the work was published. A number of plates had been prepared and can be found, with no text, in various libraries; Stafleu gives August 1805 as the circulation date.
89 leaves of engraved plates, most of them presented in two copies bound to face each other, one coloured and the other uncoloured. The plates are numbered consecutively from 1-84, but there are two subjects and two plates to nos. 7, 52, 53, 56, and 57, making the actual total 89. In addition to these, there are two cases in which a second engraved plate appears for a given plant, plates 30 and 59; one of the two versions was no doubt intended to be suppressed, but the two may be found in various copies, and in this one the numbers of the second plates have been amended in ink to read 30B and 59B. (In this copy there are both an uncoloured and a coloured version of plate 59B, but only an uncoloured version of 30B.) In this copy, in addition, there are four cases (plates 16, 20, 23, and 24), in which the engraved plate exists only in the uncoloured version, and instead of the coloured version there has been bound a coloured drawing of the plant; see the following note for details. - Apart from these there are two drawings of the same subject by different artists for plates 16, 20, 23, 24, 30, and 59; one of each of these was no doubt intended to be suppressed, but the two may be found in various copies. In the case of the alternative plates it contains the drawing of one artist in the uncoloured series, and of the other in the coloured; except for plate 59, where it has coloured and uncoloured plates of both drawings, and plate 30, where it has only an uncoloured plate of Jonigny's drawing, but both coloured and uncoloured plates of Freret's. - Plate marks 39.5x27.5 cm, apart from plates 81 and 84, which form double-page spreads (plate marks 39.5x53.5cm), which in this copy are bound on stubs to open flat. On plate 64, a detail breaks through the frame, and on plate 31, while plate number and signatures are printed normally, the details within the frame are printed longitudinally.