Huge collection of antique prints and maps
Lot 5401:
5 coloured prints of British mosses by FE Tripp 1888
These antique prints are from British Mosses, Their Homes, Aspects, Structure, and Uses. With a Coloured Figure of Each Species Etched from Nature by F.E.Tripp. Published by George Bell and Sons, London, 1888.
These beautiful and colourful illustrations in this work on mosses found in Britain were drawn by Tripp, etched in copper and hand-coloured by Benjamin Fawcett, Driffield.
This work on British mosses, uses a simplified language, whilst still offering minute detail about the structure, habits, and appearances of the mosses.
Frances Elizabeth Tripp (1832-90) was an amateur bryologist who also wrote children’s books.
Size: approx. 7.5in x 10in (19cm x 25cm)
Condition: Excellent condition – please review the image carefully
Share this lot:
