I am still working on creating a new section of my site. It should be ready by early 2018; my plan to include all the botanical prints books I perused in 2017 to get is started. This month I am getting the material formatted….working out the details for the new section.

Today I am highlighting the books I read from July – October. There were not as many botanical print books because I shifted to butterflies (prompted by my volunteering at Brookside Gardens Wings of Fancy).

July

Most of the books in July were The Botanical Cabinet volumes. There are 20 in all published in the early 1800s. Note that not all the books I am including in the collection are formal botanical prints; sometimes, they are art or catalogs or garden pictures….that are dominated by plants. They are not meant to be scientific documentation of the plant; I enjoy them too much to leave them out.

The Botanical Cabinet V11 1825 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
The Botanical Cabinet V12 1826 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
The Botanical Cabinet V13 1827 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
Hours of gladness * Maeterlinck, Maurice; Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander * sample image
The Botanical Cabinet V14 1828 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
The Botanical Cabinet V15 1828 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
The Botanical Cabinet V16 1829 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image

August

The last book listed for August is relatively recent. It was published in the mid-1950s and includes color photographs of cactus…the modern ‘botanical print.’

The Botanical Cabinet V17 1830 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
The Botanical Cabinet V18 1831 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
The Botanical Cabinet V19 1832 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
The Botanical Cabinet V20 1833 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
Among the flowers; selections from the standard poets illustrated in colors. * misc * sample image
The flowering cactus; an informative guide, illustrated in full-color photography, to one of the miracles of America's Southwest * Carlson, Raymond; Proctor, Claire Meyer; Proctor, Ralph C. * sample image

September

Botanical prints are also for children’s books; The books by Janet Kelman were published in the early 1900s.

The botanical works of the late George Engelmann * Shaw, Henry; Trelease, William; Gray, Asa * sample image
Gardens shown to the children * Kelman, Janet Harvey; Allen, Olive; Henderson, J.A. * sample image
Trees, shown to children * Kelman, Janet Harvey; Smith, C.E. * sample image

October

Botanical prints were produced in different cultures. The two from October are from Japan in the early 1900s.

Bairei gafu V3 * Yamado Unsodo (publisher) * sample image
Icones plantarum Indiae Orientalis - or figures of Indian plants V1 * Wight, Robert * sample image
Banshō zukan v. 2 * Kobayashi, Bunshichi * sample image
Icones plantarum Indiae Orientalis - or figures of Indian plants V2 * Wight, Robert * sample image
Garden Photography * Fitch, Charles Marden

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November 2017

Botanical prints are probably my favorite type of visual images and I’ve found a lot of electronic versions of them over the years. Many of them are scanned versions of books from the 1800s – before photography…a time when exotic plants were being documented and finding their way into gardens of Europe and America.

Back in November, I happened upon several books (items 16 and 23 below) that can be checked out from the Internet Archive; I realized that I had seen the work of many of the artists highlighted in the books…but there were others that I had not found yet. I did a quick check to see if their work was available on the free eBook sources I know about…and was thrilled with several new finds.

That started me thinking about the free eBooks I’ve browsed through previously and how I could make what I’ve found more easily accessible for others with similar interests. I will be creating a new section of my site in 2018 – eBotanicalPrints – toward that end. My plan is to provide a link to the free eBook; if it is there is not copyright issue – I’ll provide a sample image as well.

This post is an experiment to highlight the botanical print books I looked through last month. I’m surprised that there were 26! After the list, I have a gallery of the sample images. The individual images can be accessed via the ‘sample image’ link in the list. The books themselves often have pages of text (sometimes not in English)…but the images are plentiful. Enjoy!