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Front CoverCraftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

Front cover from “The Craftsman’s Plant-Book.”

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Added: 2011-04-12

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Bookplate of James HallCraftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

There is a bookplate or “ex libris” pasted inside the front cover of this book; it includes the words, “EX LIBRIS JAMES HALL and a styilized pine tree or feather-based design.

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Added: 2011-05-21

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Book InscriptionCraftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

Opposite the bookplate there is a hand-written inscription:

There is a monogram, HTB I think.

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Added: 2011-05-21

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Title Page, Craftsman’s Plant BookCraftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

The Craftsman’s Plant-Book: or, Figures of Plants Selected fromthe herbals of the sixteenth century, and exhibiting the finest examples of plant-drawing found in those rare works, whether executed in [...]

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Added: 2021-07-16

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Title Page Detail: Basket of FlowersCraftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

This woodcut of a basket or tub of chrysanthemums and I think roses is in a mediaeval style, and appeared as a page decoration on the title page of the book.

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Added: 2011-04-12

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322.—Apple Tree. Pyrus Malus. C. S.Craftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

The apple tree makes a rounder head than the pear-tree and is not so erect. The flowers are in umbels, whereas those of the Pear are in corymbs. Nevertheless the corymbose formation is often present, [...]

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Added: 2012-08-30

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323.—Pear.Craftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

A texture of leaves and fruit from 1565. Pyrus Communis. M. (1565) 251. Flowers, white, ¾ in. The Wild Pear has thorns, and its leaves are serrated. Both these peculiarities are absent in the cultiva [...]

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Added: 2011-04-12

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826.—Evergreen, Holly or Holm Oak.Craftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

Holly or Holm Oak Quercus Ilex. M. (1564) 206.

The reference to M. here is to Petrus Andreas Matthiolus, Commentarii, etc. Venice, 1565m The edition with the large figures.

Keywords: herbals, plants, trees, leaves, oak leaves, oak, trees, textures, greyscale

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Added: 2021-07-14

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Cork Oak, Quercus SuberCraftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

Cork Oak Quecus Suber

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Added: 2019-02-09

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