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Mainely Prints - Specializing in Antique Prints
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Botanical books and publications were printed to serve many communities: "professional" horticultural/floricultural, botanists, gardeners, medical, or "general" communities. Their range includes treatises on an individual plant families (camellias, seaweeds, ferns) to catalogs of cultivated plants (Paxton's Magazine of Botany) to catalogs indigenous plants (Sowerby's English Botany) to catalogs of wild growing regional plants (Bennett's Flora of the Alps) to general gardening (Amateur Gardener). General interest Victorian publications occasionally featured a flower/plant. Travel and exploration books sometimes catalogued the flora and fauna of new lands.
"Vertical" collections have a specialty: a plant (Lady Slipper), a family/genus (orchid, lichens), a publisher (Curtis, Paxton), an artist (Cooke, Weinmann, Edwards), a region (Britain, Australia), a time period (1700's) - or a combination of those (Curtis magnolias). "Horizontal" collections cover a wider variety of general interest (common flowers, cultivated plants, vegetables) and are broader in scope.
In general, for publications that are still widely available, you should look for the earlier plates in the best possible condition. As publication becomes more rare, condition becomes secondary, but should not be ignored. As colored plates are frequently difficult to restore, collectors should only buy prints in "poor" condition if it's an "absolutely must have".
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