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 /

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Author / Creator:Wolfe, Richard J., 1928-2017.
Edition:Second edition with corrections and additions.
Imprint:New Castle [Del.] : Oak Knoll Press, 2012.
Description:128 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : 2 illustrations (1 color) ; 24 cm
Language:English
Series:Richard J. Wolfe Collection of Paper Marbling and Allied Book Arts.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8863612
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Varying Form of Title:Bigelow's American medical botany
Other authors / contributors:Richard J. Wolfe Collection of Paper Marbling and Allied Book Arts.
ISBN:9781584563037
1584563036
Notes:First edition published: North Hills, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 1979.
"Two hundred and sixty copies of this work have been printed, of which two hundred and forty-five are for sale."
"The publication of this second edition has ... allowed the author to silently correct a number of minor typographical errors ... to make a few stylistic improvements ... to incorporate into its chapter VI some newly uncovered evidence on the reception of Bigelow's American medical botany in colonial [sic] Philadelphia ... and to add an index"--Page xii.
Wolfe's chapter 4 describes a process by which Bigelow's plates were printed on stone, an entirely conjectural account based solely on the evidence of a cost estimate for printing American medical botany that included 60 stones. This is definitively refuted in Philip Weimerskirch, "The beginning of color printing in America", in Printing history, no. 48 (2005), p. 25-40. Weimerskirch demonstrates that the estimate in question actually dates from no earlier than 1837, for a projected but never published new edition with lithographic illustrations.
"The two illustrations mounted into the first and now the second edition of this study comprise original engraved plates--one hand-colored and the other left uncolored--that Jacob Bigelow had made up when he initially intended to illustrate his work in the usual hand-colored way."--Page ix.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  • Gift of Richard J. Wolfe