1859 BRADBURY NATURE PRINTED SEAWEED, 3 PRINTS

1859 BRADBURY NATURE PRINTED SEAWEED, 3 PRINTS (image 1/1)
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Nature Printed British Sea Weeds by Bradbury 1859 Polysiphonia violacea; Polysiphonia fibrillosa; Polysiphonia atro-rubescens We are delighted to offer a selection of prints from �The Nature-Printed British Sea-Weeds� by Bradbury and Evans, published in 1859. These intricately detailed prints were created using the �nature-printed� process developed by the Austrian Alois Auer and perfected by Henry Bradbury. In this unique process a plant is pressed into a plate of soft lead, leaving an impression from which an electrotype is made. The resultant prints are incredibly life like and true to nature, capturing the fine detail of each seaweed without the interpretation of an engraver or artist. They are printed in a range of colors, with three colors sometimes combined on one plate.Each print is clean & still white, with minor occasional foxing, measuring approximately 6 inches wide by 9 1/2 inches long. On a few, the image is very slightly shaved on the right side due to close binding. The original descriptive text accompanies each print, and a copy of the title page is included.The beauty of the seaweeds is startling, as it is nature printing at its very pinnacle. On many of the prints, it is possible to feel the raised surface of the inks used. No web photograph can completely capture the subtle detail, but the pictures provided read more
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