August 24 – November 20, 2015
In celebration of the lush landscape of summer, and with a nod to the first track of the The New Christy Minstrel’s greatest hits (available for your listening pleasure in Mills
Music Library), this exhibit draws upon the holdings of Special Collections to explore the color green. From ferns and fruit to frogs and firs, great estates in Ireland to imaginary cityscapes in Oz, our collections offer much by way of illustrations rich with verdant variety.
The exhibit, which meanders through our various special collections, explores
▪ ferns
▪ frogs
▪ forests & trees
▪ grasses & meadows
▪ mosses
▪ parrots & parakeets
▪ greenhouses & their contents
▪ lawns
▪ Greenland
▪ Ireland
▪ the Emerald City of Oz
▪ (imaginary) green creatures
▪ characters clad in green
▪ color theory & practice
▪ Charles Henry’s chromatic circle
▪ green book bindings
▪ Charles Darwin’s writings, also bound in green
▪ green ink & hand-coloring in books
▪ green paper
Department of Special Collections ▪ 976 Memorial Library
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© Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

Moore, Thomas, 1821 1887. The ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. Ed. by John Lindley; nature-printed by Henry Bradbury. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1855.
Call number:
Thordarso n T 3793 flat.
On display: plates VIII (mountain parsley fern, or rock brakes: Allosorus crispus) and
XII (soft prickly shield fern: Polystichum angulare). As described in the Preface, “…if minute accuracy is of more vital importance in one than another race of plants, it is most especially so among Ferns, in the distinctions of which the form of indentations, general outline, … and most especially the distribution of veins scarcely visible to the naked eye, play the most important.” Hence the advantages of what is called natureprinting: “an exact copy in copper of the part to be represented being employed by the printer, instead of so fragile an object as the plant itself, we obtain the means of multiplying copies to the same extent as in copperplate engraving….” The verso of the pages thus printed show distinct indentations on the paper resulting from that “exact copy in copper.”
Sowerby, John Edward, 1825 1870 . The ferns of Great Britain.
Illustrated by John E.
Sowerby, descriptions, synonyms, &c., by Charles Johnson. London, H.G. Bohn, 1859.
Call n umber: Thordarson T 3428 . Issued with Sowerby’s Fern allies , also 1859.
Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785 1865 . Garden ferns; or, Coloured figures and descriptions, with the needful analyses of the fructification and venation, of a selection of exotic ferns adapted for cultivation in the garden, hothouse, and conservatory. Drawings by Walter Fitch. London,
Lovell Reeve, 1862. Call n umber: Thordarson T 3285 .
Moore, Thomas, 1821 1887 . Nature-printed British ferns: Being figures and descriptions of the species and varieties of ferns found in the United Kingdom. Nature-printed by Henry
Bradbury. Octavo edition. 2 vols. London, Bradbury, Evans and C o., 1863. Call number:
Thordarson T 3794 3795 .
Lowe, Edward Joseph, 1825 1900 . Our native ferns; or, A history of the British species and their varieties [etc.] 2 vols. London, Groombridge and Sons, 1867 69. Call number:
Thordarson T 3643 [vol. 1].
Eaton, Daniel Cady, 1834 1895 . The ferns of North America. Colored figures and descriptions with synonymy and geographical distribution, of the ferns (including the Ophioglossaceœ) of the
United States of America and the British North American possessions. Drawings by J. H.
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Emerton and C. E. Faxon. Salem, S. E. Cassino , 1879 1880. Issued in parts, 1877 1880.
Call n umber: Thordarson T 4901 oversize (also NJ EA7 Cutter oversize).
Meehan, Thomas, 1826 1901 .
The native flowers and ferns of the United States in their botanical, horticultural and popular aspects. Illustrated by chromolithographs . 2 vols.
Boston: L. Prang and Co., 1879. Call n umber: NP83 M47 1 Cutter vol. 2.
Schneider, George, 1848 1917 . The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory, and stove:
Describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and
selaginellas in cultivation. New York: J. Arnot Penman; London: L. Upcott Gill, [1890 -
1894] . Call n umber: Thordarson T 4893 [vol. 6].
Parsons, Frances Theodora, 1861 1952 . How to know the ferns: A guide to the names, haunts, and habits of our common ferns. Illustrated by Marion Satterlee and Alice Josephine Smith; binding designed by Margaret Armstrong. 7 th edition. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, [1913?]. Call n umber: CA 18060 no. 105 .
From the library of Marjorie Woodward Hood, class of 1940. Margaret Armstrong’s binding d esign is the same as the 1899 edition, but with a different color scheme.
La Cépède, M. le comte de (Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville sur Illon), 1756 1825.
The natural history of oviparous quadrupeds and serpents. Arranged and published from the papers and collections of the Count de Buffon, by the Count de la Cepede; translated by
Robert Kerr. Edinburgh: printed by Alex. Smellie: W. Creech; London: T. Cadel, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802. Call n umber: CA 6698.
English translation of Histoire naturelle des quadrupédes ovipares et des serpents . Presented by J.M.W. Pratt, Milwaukee.
Rösel von Rosenhof, August Johann, 1705 1759. Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium in qua omnes earum proprietates, praesertim quae ad generalionem ipsarum pertinent, fusius enarrantur.
Cum praefatione illustris viri Alberti v. Haller. Nuremberg: Fleischmann,
1758. Call n umber: Flat 1231198.
The contents feature text in Latin and German in parallel columns.
Bell, Thomas, 1792 1880 . A history of British reptiles. 2 nd edition. London: John Van
Voorst...
, 1849. Call number: Thordarson T 264 .
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Comedies of Aristophanes: Viz: The clouds, Plutus, the frogs, the birds . London: Printed by
A .J. Valpy for Lackington, Allen, 1812. Call number: CA 5227 .
Wood, John Norris. An alphabet in praise of frogs & toads. Written and drawn by John
Norris Wood; with a foreword by Len Deighton and an afterword by Olive Cook.
Witney near Oxford: Inky Pa rrot Press, 2002. Call number: Press Inky Parrot.
C opy no. 49 of 360.
Aristophanes. The frogs. Translated from the Greek by William James Hickie; with an introduction by Gilbert Seldes; and wood-engravings by John Austen. [New York]:
Printed for the memb ers of the Limited Editions Club by J. Enschedé en Zonen, 1937 .
Call number: Press Limited Editions Club oversize.
Copy 316, s igned by the illustrator.
Standish, Arthur, active 1611 1613 . New directions of experience authorized by the kings most excellent majesty, as may appeare, for the planting of timber and fire-wood.
“If two hundred and forty thousand acres be planted and preserved according to the directions following ... there may be as much timber raised, as will maintaine the kingdome for all uses for ever….” [London: s.n.], 1614. Call n umber: Thordarson T 2460 .
Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744 1815 . The natural history of the tea-tree: With observations on the medical qualities of tea, and effects of tea-drinking. London: Printed for Edward and
Charles Dilly ... , 1772. Call n umber: Thordarson T 3536 .
Michaux, François André, 1770 1855 . The North American sylva, or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia: considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts, and their introduction into commerce. To which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees illustrated by 156 coloured engravings.
Translated by Augustus L. Hillhouse. Paris: Printed by C. D'Hautel, 1819. Call number:
Thordarson T 3754 [vol. 2].
Gray, Asa, 1810 1888 . Plates prepared between the years 1849 and 1859, to accompany a report on the forest trees of North America. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1891. Call n umber: NT81 G79 Cutter oversize.
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Only a fragment of the work projected (but not completed) by Dr. Gray; the plates bear the numbers intended for the original work.
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849 1909 . The country of the pointed firs. Boston and New York:
Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1896 . Call n umber: Cairns BAL 10910 printing 2.
Unsigned binding attributed to Sarah Wyman Whitman; covers of the first printing were digitized as part of the project Publishers’ Bindings Online, available through the
UW Digital Collections.
Blagrave, Joseph, 1610 1682 . The epitome of the art of husbandry: comprising all necessary directions for the improvement of it [etc.] [ 2 nd ed.] London: Printed for Benjamin Billingsley
[etc.] , 1670. Call number: Thordarson T 299 (another copy REL B57 Cutter).
The second part (with separate title page) addresses, among other topics, “a new way of inriching meadows, destroying of moles, [and] making tulips of any colour .”
Worlidge, John, active 1669 1698 . Systema agriculturae: the mystery of husbandry discovered: treating of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices [etc.] “The third edition carefully corrected and amended: with one whole section added, and many large and useful additions throughout the whole work.”
London: Printed for Tho. Dring, at the Harrow at the corner of Chancery-lane in
Fleetstreet, 1681. Call n umber: Thordarson T 2732 oversize.
Cur tis, William, 1746 1799 . Practical observations on the British grasses: Especially such as are best adapted to the laying down or improving of meadows and pastures: Likewise an enumeration of the British grasses. “To which is subjoined, A short account of the causes of the diseases in corn called by farmers the blight, the mildew, and the rust by Sir Joseph
Banks.” London: Printed for H.D. Symonds [etc.] , 1812. Call n umber: Thordarson T 668 .
Pratt, Anne, 1806 1893 . The flowering plants, grasses, sedges, and ferns of Great Britain, and
their allies the club mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails. 6 vols. London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1873] . Call n umber: Thordarson T 4896 [vol. 6].
Clark, Thomas A., and Laurie Clark. Proverbs of the meadow.
[Gloucester]: Moschatel
Press, [19 —]. Call number: Press Moschatel.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819 1892 . Leaves of grass. With wood-engravings by Boyd Hanna.
Mount Vernon, N.Y.: Peter Pauper Press, [1950] . Call number: Press Pauper oversize.
Colophon: “Eleven hundred copies printed.” Gift of James and Nancy Dast.
Necker, Noel Joseph de, 1729 1793 . Physiologia muscorum: Per examen analyticum de corporibus varris naturalibus inter se collatis continuitatem proximamve animalis cum vegetabili concatenationem indicantibus. Mannheim : Schwan, 1774. Call n umber: QK535
N4 .
Hedwig, Johannes, 1730 1799 . Fundamentum historiae naturalis muscorum frondosorum:
Concernens eorum flores, fructus, seminalem propagationem adiecta generum dispositione methodica, iconibus illustratis.
2 vols. Leipzig : Apud S.L. Crusium, 1782. Call number: NF
H35 F Cutter .
Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim, 1766 1833 . Einleitung in das Studium der
kryptogamischen Gewachse. Halle: K.A. Kummel, 1804. Call n umber: QK505 S691 1804 .
A cryptogam lacks true flowers or seeds and reproduces by spores. Examples are ferns, mosses, liverworts, lichens, algae, and fungi.
Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785 1865 . British Jungermanniae: Being a history and description, with colored figures, of each species of the genus, and microscopical analyses of the parts. London: Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Sherwood,
Neely, and Jones; and J. Harding, 1816. Call n umber: Oversize Thordarson T 3276 oversize. The term refers to liverworts, themselves simple plants related to mosses.
Hedwig, Johannes, 1730 1799 . Joannis Hedwig ... species muscorum frondosorum: Descriptae et tabulis aeneis lxxvii coloratis illustratae. Posthumous work, ed. Friedrich Schwaegrichen.
Leipzig: Sumtu Joannis Ambrosii Barthii; Paris: A mand Koenig, 1801. Plus supplements, two volumes of which are shown here. Call n umber: NK H35 S Cutter .
Lear, Edward, 1812 1888 . Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or parrots: The greater part of them species hitherto unfigured.
Containing forty-two lithographic plates, drawn from
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life, and on stone [and hand-colored]. London : Published by E. Lear, 1832.
Call number:
Thordarson T 3524 flat. Also available in UW Digital Collections.
Although Lear may be better known for his limericks, he was also an accomplished ornithologist and artist.
Audubon, John James, 1785 1851 . The birds of America: From drawings made in the United
States and their territories.
7 vols. [1 st octavo edition]. New York, J. J. Audubon;
Philadelphia, J. B. Chevalier, 1840 1844.
Call number: Thordarson T 152 158; of which
Thordarson T 155 [vol. 4] is shown.
On display near the Special Collections reference desk are separate plates of the
Carolina parrots (or parakeets) from Audubon’s great work and the octavo edition — these framed prints were part of Dr. Richard Anderson’s gift to the UW Medical
Foundation (they were not taken, we hasten to add, from the Thordarson copies of either the Audubon double-elephant folio or the octavo edition).
Gould, John, 1804 1881. The birds of Australia. 7 vols. London : Printed by Richard and
John E. Taylor ; pub. by the author, 1848 1869.
Call number: Thordarson T 1747 1754 flat, of which is shown Thordarson T 1751 flat [vol. 5].
Plates, with preface, introduction, and accompanying text (letterpress). Supplement printed by Taylor and Francis, 1869.
Originally issued in parts.
Bradley, Richard, 1688 1732 . New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical . Explaining the motion of the sapp [sic] and generation of plants: with other discoveries never before made public, for the improvement of foresttrees, flower-gardens, or parterres [etc.]: likewise several rare secrets for the improvement of fruit-trees, kitchen-gardens, and green-house plants . 2 nd ed., corrected.
London: Printed for W. Mears ... , 1718. Call n umber: Thordarson T 380 .
__________. New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. In three parts. I. Containing, A new system of vegetation ... II. The best manner of improving flower gardens or parterres ... III. Of improving fruit-trees, kitchen-gardens, and green-house plants ... To which is added, that scarce and valuable tract, intitled,
Herefordshire-orchards [etc.] 6 th ed., with an appendix, treating several matters omitted in the former impressions. London: Printed for J. and J. Knapton [etc.] 1731. Call n umber: SB97 B811 1731 .
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Abercrombie, John, 1726 1806 . The propagation and botanical arrangements of plants and trees: useful and ornamental, proper for cultivation in every department of gardening, nurseries, plantations and agriculture [etc.] 2 vols. London: Printed for J. Debrett [etc.] , 1784. Call number: Thordarson T 9 [vol. 2].
Including section VI. Green-house plants, and section VII. Hot-house plants.
Curtis, William, 1746 1799 . The botanical magazine, or, Flower-garden displayed: In which the most ornamental foreign plants, cultivated in the open ground, the green-house, and the stove, are accurately represented in their natural colours. London: Printed for W. Curtis, at his botanicgarden ... and sold by all booksellers ... , 1787 1800. Call number: Thordarson T
673 , the initial volume in the set.
Sweet, Robert, 1783 1835 . Flora Australasica, or, A selection of handsome, or curious plants, natives of New Holland, and the South Sea Islands: containing coloured figures and descriptions of some of the choicest species most proper for the conservatory or greenhouse ... in one volume.
Drawings by E.D. Smith. London: James Ridgway [etc.] , 1827 1828. Call number:
Thordarson T 4433 .
Maddock, James, 1763 1825 . The florist's directory: a treatise on the culture of flowers: to which is added a supplementary dissertation on soils, manures, &c. A new edition, improved by Samuel Curtis. London: Printed for John Harding [etc.] , 1810. Call number:
Thordarson T 3672 .
Bound with other works on horticulture, including a treatise on the improved culture of the strawberry, raspberry, and gooseberry.
Two guides to Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew by Sir William Jackson Hooker , 1785 -
1865 :
16 th ed. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. Call n umber: CA 6730 .
17 th ed. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858. Call number: CA
6731 .
Oliver, Daniel, 1 830 1916 . Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens and Pleasure Grounds, Kew.
25 th ed. London: Macmillan, 1870. Call n umber: CA 6732 .
Bauer, Franz Andreas, 1758 1840 . Delineations of exotick plants cultivated in the Royal garden at Kew. Drawn and coloured, and the botanical characters displayed according to the Linnean system. London: Published by W.T. Aiton [etc.]; printed by W. Bulmer and
Co. for George Nicol [etc.] , 1796. Call n umber: Thordarson T 239 flat.
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Somerville, William, 1675 1742 . Hobbinol, field sports, and the bowling green.
London:
Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for R. Ackermann, 1813. Call n umber: PR3699 S2 A7 oversize.
Stevens, Thomas, 1828 1888 . The Crystal Palace.
Woven in pure silk. Coventry:
Stevengraph Works, [n.d., between 1879 1888] . Call number: CA 17820.
Mounted by the manufacturer on cardboard border. Note the lawn and flower beds. Advertising flyer for Stevengraph pure silk woven pictures on back.
Rules of lawn tennis and catalogue for 1888. New York: A. G. Spalding, 1888 . Memorial
Library call number: VLT 9 Cutter. The sporting goods firm was established by Boston
Red Stockings pitcher A. G. Spalding in 1876.
A manual of cricket and base ball: Containing plans for laying out the grounds, plans for forming clubs, &c., &c.: to which are added rules and regulations for cricket, adopted by the
Marylebone club. Also rules and regulations which govern several celebrated base ball [sic]
clubs. Boston: Mayhew & Baker, 1858. Call n umber: 998103 noncurrent.
Lyttelton, Edward. Cricket: With illustrations. New ed. London; New York: G. Bell &
Sons, 1894. Part of the All-England series. Call n umber: A 10025 .
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832 1888 .
Jo's boys, and how they turned out: A sequel to "Little men."
1 st ed. Call number: Cairns BAL 211.j
. Gift of Emily K. Auerbach. Note the discussion of the lawn.
Hudson, William Henry, 1841 1922 . The book of a naturalist. London: Hodder and
Stoughton, [1919] . Call n umber: Thordarson T 3329 . Including the essay “Concerning lawns, with incidental observations on earthworms.” Among Hudson’s other books was Green mansions: A romance of the tropical forest , also held in Special Collections.
Updike, John. Golf dreams: Writings on golf. Drawings by Paul Szep. 1st ed. New York:
Knopf: Distributed by Rand om House, Inc, 1996. Call n umber: 20th Century Updike .
Teyssot, Georges, 1946 -, ed. The American lawn.
1 st ed. New York, N.Y.: Princeton
Architectural Press; Montréal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1999. Call number: CA
18000 no. 568 . Gift of Professo r William Cronon. Includes 3D (stereoscopic) glasses.
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Pellham, Edward, active 1630 . Gods power and providence: shewed, in the miraculous preservation and deliverance of eight Englishmen, left by mischance in Green-land anno 1630, nine moneths and twelve dayes: with a true relation of all their miseries ... with a description of the chiefe places and rarities of that barren and cold countrey [sic] . Faithfully reported by
Edward Pelham, one of the eight men aforesaid; as also with a map of Green-land.
London: Printed by R. Y[oung]. for John Partridge ..., 1631. Call number: Thordarson T
2281 .
Carstensen, Andreas Riis, 1844 1906 . Two summers in Greenland: An artist's adventures among ice and islands, in fjords and mountains.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1890. Call n umber: CA 18040 no. 505 . Gift of Bruce and Carol Grover.
Egede, Hans, 1686 1758 . A description of Greenland. New edition with an historical introduction and a life of the author [etc.] London: T. & J. Allman, 1818. Call number:
Thordars on T 4783 .
Carve, Thomas, 1590 1672?
Lyra sive Anacephalæosis Hibernica: In qua de exordio, seu origine, nomine, moribus, ritibusque gentis Hibernicæ succinctè tractatur; cui quoque accessere
Annales ejusdem Hiberniæ, nec non rerum gestarum per Europam ab anno 1148 usque ad
annum 1650. 2 nd ed. Sulzbaci: Sumptibus Michaëlis & Johan. Friedrici Endterorum: Typis
Abrahami Lichtenthaleri, 1666. Call n umber: F42 C25 Cutter . Bound in green with gilt; page edges are gold.
Whyte, Samuel, 1733 1811 , ed.
The Shamrock: or, Hibernian cresses. A collection of poems, songs, epigrams, &c., Latin as well as English, the original production of Ireland. To which are subjoined, Thoughts on the prevailing system of school education, respecting young ladies as well as gentlemen: with practical proposals for a reformation. Dublin: Printed by R.
Marchbank, 1772. Call number: YP 9W619 C utter.
Cary, John, approximately 1754 1835 . A new map of Ireland divided into provinces and counties: Also the opposite coasts of Scotland and Wales shewing the several ports from whence the packets depart for Ireland from from the latest authorities.
London: Printed for J. Cary, engraver & mapseller, 1799. Hand-colored. Call n umber: Flat Coll. Y Irish maps No. 9
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Morris, Francis Orpen , 1810 1893, ed. A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland: with descriptive and historical letterpress.
6 vols. London; Edinburgh; Dublin: William Mackenzie, [188 ?] Published originally in parts by Longman, then by D. Banks in Leeds, but ultimately was sold as a subscription work in six volumes in 1880 by William Mackenzie. Call n umber: CA 18040 no. 322 [vol.
4]. Gift of Bruce and Carol Grover.
Hall, S. C., Mrs., 1800 1881 .
Sketches of Irish character. Illustrated ed. Philadelphia: D.
McKay, [1910]. Call n umber: F4299 H17 .
Heaney, Seamus, 1939 2013 . The riverbank field. Paintings and drawings by Martin Gale
Loughcrew, Co. Meath: Gallery Press, 2007.
Signed by the author and numbered.
Call numbe r: 20th Century Heaney .
Baum, L. (i.e., Lyman) Frank, 1856 1919 . The new Wizard of Oz. With pictures by W. W.
Denslow. Indianapolis: BobbsMerrill, 1903. Call number: Coll. W Oz no. 1
First published in 1900 under the title The wonderful Wizard of Oz.
__________. The new Wizard of Oz. Illustrations by Evelyn Copelman, adapted from the famous pictures by W. W. Denslow. Indianapolis; New York: Bobbs-Merrill company,
1944. Call n umber: Coll. W Oz no. 2 .
A version more than four decades after the first, and — appropriately — bound in green.
__________. The emerald city of Oz.
Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: Reilly & Lee,
1910. Call number: Coll. W Oz no. 11.
In this sequel, Dorothy's aunt and uncle get acquainted with Oz after they lose their farm and Ozma invites them to live with her.
__________. The road to Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1909. Call n umber: Coll. W Oz no. 10 .
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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588 1679 . Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill [sic]. London: Printed for Andrew Ckooke [i.e. Crooke], at the
Green Dragon in St. Paul’s Churchyard, 1651. Call n umber: 655540 noncurrent .
Shops in early modern England were often identified by the signs hanging outside their doors, as in the sign of the green dragon near St. Paul’s.
Theatrum chemicum Britannicum: Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language. The first part. Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon, by Elias
Ashmole. London: Printed by J. Grismond for Nath: Brooke, at the angel in Cornhill,
1652. Call n umber: Thordarson T 136 .
Shown here: “The hunting of the greene lyon .” Our copy has a signed binding by the well-known bookbinding firm Sangorski, Sutcliffe of London.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875 1950 . A princess of Mars. Illustrated by Frank E.
Schoonover. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1917. Call numbe r: CA 17220 no.26
.
One of the historical titles transferred to Special Collections from the Cooperative
Children's Book Center. This appears to be a 1922 printing .
Note mention of the little green men.
Amis, Kingsley.
The green man . London, Cape, 1969.
Call number: 20 th Century Amis.
[Hepworth, Adaline A (Drury)]. The little gentleman in green: A fairy tale by Una Savin
[pseud.] Boston: Loring, 1865. Call n umber: Cairns PZ8 H413 Li 1865 .
The Quakers art of courtship: Or, The yea-and-nay academy of compliments: containing several curious discourses, by way of dialogues, letters, and songs, between brethren and green-apron'd sisters ... by the author of Teague-land jests . London: Printed, and are to be sold by most booksellers, 1737. Call n umber: Thordarson T 2371 .
Both the title and the caption refer to “green-apron’d sisters.”
Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850 1943 . The green satin gown. Illustrated by
Etheldred B. Barry. Boston: D. Estes, 1903. Call n umber: Cairns PZ3 R389 Gre .
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As the narrator recalls, “…I was left alone with the green satin gown. Cry? No, I did not cry … but I suffered, my dear, as one does suffer at seventeen.”
Snyder, Marcia Penfield. Eight lands in eight weeks: A package of diary letters to beloved stayat-homes. With a few sketches and letter heads by the writer, the lady in green, and
M.B.W. New York; Chicago: Broadway, 1911. Call n umber: Cairns D921 S685 1911 .
Lee, Jennette, 1860 1951 . The green jacket.
New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1917. Call number : Cairns PZ3 L513 Gr .
Arlen, Michael, 1895 1956 . The green hat. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1924] . Call n umber: 20th Century Arlen . From the Sealts Collection.
Featuring “a green hat, of a sort of felt, and bravely worn.”
Robin Hood and his merry-men. Illustrations by G. A. Davis. Springfield, MA:
McLoughlin, Bros., Inc., 1929. On loan from a private collection.
Baum, L. Frank, 1856 1919 . The new Wizard of Oz . Illustrations by Evelyn Copelman, adapted from the famous pictures by W. W. Denslow. Indianapolis; New York: Bobbs-
Merrill company, 1944. First published 1900 under the title The wonderful Wizard of Oz .
Call n umber: Coll. W Oz no. 42 .
Runge, Friedlieb Ferdinand, 1795 1867 . Farbenchemie.
2 vols. Berlin, Posen, Bromberg:
E.S. Mittler, 1834 - Call n umber: Q0.1 R9424 F v. 1 and v. 2.
With dye and calico-printing samples.
Chevreul, Michel Eugène, 1786 1889 . Des couleurs et de leurs applications aux arts industriels à l'aide des cercles chromatiques. Avec XXVII planches gravées sur acier et imprimées en couleur par René Digeon. Paris: J.B. Ballière et fils, libraires de l'Académie impériale de médecine, [also London, Madrid, New York, and Leipzig] , 1864 . Call number: CA 1270 oversize.
Atlas of plates for color matching, according to Chevreul's system of color analysis, intended for use in “industrial arts.”
Krieg, Ludwig J. Theorie und praktische Anwendung von Anilin in der Färberei und Druckerei nebst Bemerkungen über die Anilin-Surrogate; für Färberei- und Druckereibesitzer, Photogen,
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Paraffin- und Gasfabrikanten. 2. Aufl. Berlin: J. Springer, 1862. Call n umber: LRF K89
Cutter.
About the use of aniline dyes (derived from coal tar), and containing specimens of fabrics dyed with Simpson, Maule & Nicholson's colors and with Perkin & Son's Colors.
From the library of Prof. Edward Kremers and with his notes.
Sansone, Antonio. Dyeing: Comprising the dyeing and bleaching of wool, silk, cotton, flax, hemp, china grass &c.
Illustrated with numerous plates and specimens. 2 vols.
Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. and Hamilton
Adams & Co., 1888. Call n umber: LRF SA5 D Cutter v. 2.
Paterson, David. Textile colour mixing; A manual intended for the use of dyers, calico printers
and colour chemists. 3 rd rev. ed. New York, Van Nostrand [1927] . Call n umber: LRF P27
1927 Cutter .
Henry, Charles, 1859 1926 . Éléments d'une théorie générale de la dynamogénie autrement dit du contraste, du rythme et de la mesure avec applications spéciales aux sensations visuelle et auditive. Paris: C. Verdin, constructeur d'instruments de précision [Bruges: Imprimé par
Desclée, de Brouwer et cie], 1889. Call n umber: CA 7788 flat.
Henry’s chromatic circle was intended to present all the complements and harmonies of colors.
Bewick, Thomas, 1753 1828. A general history of quadrupeds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick. Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, &
T. Bewick, sold by them ... [and 3 others], London, 1790. Call number: Thordarson T 271
V ariant 1 (fly on p. 176 faces upward) .
Gould, John, 1804 1881 . An introduction to the birds of Australia. London: Printed for the author by R. and J. E. Taylor, 1848. Call number: Thordarson T 1775
Bookplate of Gregory M. Mathews. Manuscript references to plates in the supplemental volume of the author's “Birds of Australia” bound in at end.
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Sandys, William, 1792 1874 . Christmastide. Its history, festivities, and carols. London: John
Russell Smith [1852] . Call number: Thordarson T 4148
Hibberd, Shirley, 1825 1890, ed . The floral world and garden guide. London: Groombridge and sons, 1858 1876. Call number: Thordarson T 1131 .
Parkhurst, Howard Elmore, 1848 1916 .
Song birds and water fowl. Binding by Margaret
Armstrong. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Call n umber: CA 18060 no. 101 .
From the library of Marjorie Woodward Hood, class of 1940.
McCutcheon, George Barr, 1866 1928 . The day of the dog. With illustrations by Harrison
Fisher and decorations by Margaret & Helen Maitland Armstrong. New York: Dodd,
Mead, 1904. Call number: CA 18060 no. 77 .
From the library of Marjorie Woodward Hood, class of 1940.
The collection also contains two other binding variants (CA 18060 no. 75 and 76).
Leĭkhtenbergskīĭ, Nikolaĭ Maksimilīanovich, gert s og, 1843 1890 . Ukazatel' dli a puteshestvii a ego Imperatorksago vysochestva Nikolai a Maksimilīanovicha, kni a zi a romanovskago, gert s oga Leĭkhtenbergskago na Uralʹskiĭ khrebet 1866 g. Possibly compiled by
Evgenīĭ Vasil'evich Bogdanovich. Call number: Manuscripts MS 115 .
McSpadden, Joseph Walker, 1874 1960 .
Stories from Wagner. New York: Thomas Y.
Crowell Co., 1914. Cloth binding and decorated endpapers designed by Margaret
Armstrong. Call numbe r: CA 18060 no. 81 .
From the library of Marjorie Woodward Hood, class of 1940.
Stockton, Frank R., 1834 1902 . The girl at Cobhurst.
Cloth binding signed by the designer:
M.A. [i.e. Margaret Armstrong]. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. Call number:
CA 18060 no. 146 (also Y ST62 G Cutter ).
From the library of Marjorie Woodward Hood, class of 1940.
The bookplate of a previous owner reads, “This Book belongs to Katherine Ballard Hyde. Dip Deeply
Within My Pages.”
Parry, Robert Williams. Cerddi . Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 1980. Call number: Press
Gregynog.
Edition limited to 200 copies , of which this is no. 133.
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The original publisher of Darwin’s works, John Murray of London, issued the titles in a distinctive and uniform green binding, as these copies make clear. Special Collections also holds a first edition of Darwin’s On the origin of species (in the same green publisher’s cloth binding), but, like most of the copies of the first edition, it is too fragile to display. A fully searchable virtual bookshelf of Darwin’s books, along with copious other materials, is available as part of the international project Darwin Online (at http://darwin-online.org.uk/Introduction.html).
Darwin, Charles, 1809 1882 .
The descent of man: And selection in relation to sex . 2 vols. 7 th thousand. London: John M urray, Albemarle Street., 1871.
Call number: Thordarson T
3075 3076 .
__________. The expression of the emotions in man and animals.
With photographic and other illustrations. Illustrated with heliotypes and wood engravings. London: John
Murray, 1872. Call n umber: Thordarson T 3077 (another copy CA 1460 ).
This volume reproduced multiple photographs from Duchenne de Boulogne's
Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine ( Paris, 1862 ) along with other photographs by
Reijlander.
__________. Insectivorous plants.
3 rd thousand. London, John Murray, 1875. Call number:
Thordarson T 3078 (also CA 8651 ).
__________. The effects of cross and self fertilisation [sic] in the vegetable kingdom.
London:
John Murray, 1876. Call number: CA 1705.
__________. The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. London: John
Murray, 1877. Call n umber: Thordarson T 3079 (another copy CA 14604 ).
__________. The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms, with observations on their habits. London: John Murray, 1881. Call n umber: Thordarson T 3081 (another copy CA 14526 ).
__________. The power of movement in plants. Assisted by Francis Darwin; with illustrations . 2 nd thousand. London: John Murray, 1880 . Call number: Thordarson T
3080 .
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Caraccioli, LouisAntoine, marquis, 1719 1803 .
Le livre à la mode. A Verte Feuille, de
l'imprimerie du Printems au Perroquet. L'année nouvelle. [Paris: Duquesne?, 1759]. Call n umber: CA 4817.
Bound with titles printed in red and other colors.
Blackwell, Elizabeth, active 1737 . A curious herbal: Containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick, engraved on folio copper plates, after drawings, taken from the life. To which is added a short description of ye [the] plants; and their common uses in physick . 2 vols. London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1739. Call number: Flat Thordarson T 291 [vol. 2].
The entire work was engraved, r eading matter as well as plates; the work of 1739 was a reissue of the 1737 edition with the imprints re -engraved and volume statements in roman numerals. Originally published in weekly installments.
Werner, Abraham Gottlob, 1749 1817 . Werner's nomenclature of colours, with additions, arranged so as to render it highly useful to the arts and sciences, particularly zoology, botany,chemistry,mineralogy, and morbid anatomy.
Annexed to which are examples selected from well-known objects in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms.
2 nd ed. Edinburgh: Printed for William Blackwood and T. Cadell, London, 1821. Call number: CA 6553 .
Brookshaw, George. Groups of flowers: Drawn and accurately coloured after nature, with full directions for the young artist: Designed as a companion to the treatise on flower painting.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and John Lepard by
Augustus Applegath and Henry Mitton, 1817. Call number: Oversize Thordarson T 418 .
Bound with other works by Brookshaw. Also available in UW Digital Collections.
Cole, William, of Colchester. Philosophical remarks on the theory of comets; To which is subjoined, A dissertation on the nature and properties of light. London: Printed by J. Barfield
... for B. J. Holdsworth [etc.] , 1823. Call number: Thordarson T 3005 .
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Smith, Alexander, 1830?
1867 . Dreamthorp: Eight essays.
With wood-engravings by Boyd
Hanna. Mount Vernon, N.Y.: Peter Paupe r Press, [1947] . Call number: Press Pauper.
Gift of James and Nancy Dast. With slip case.
Clark, Thomas A. Three colours. [Gloucester]: Moschatel Press, 1982. Call number: Press
Moschatel.
McKay, Barry. Patterns and pigments in English marbled papers: An account of the origins, sources and documentary literature to 1881.
Kidlington, Oxford: Plough Press, 1988. Call number: Press Plough . Copy number 121 of 160.
Burnett, David, 1937 - . Six poems. With wood engravings by Sister Margaret Tournour.
Tragara Press publication Durham: Black Cygnet Press, 1995. Call number: Press
Tragara . 150 copies printed.
Salmoni, Steven. Landscapes, with green mangoes. Tucson, AZ: Chax Press, 2011. Call number: Press Chax.
Lubbock, Joseph Guy. The realm of nature mine: Original hand-coloured prints and text.
London: Bertram Rota, 2005. Call number: Press Bertram Rota oversize.
Design and printing of the text by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press; binding by the Fine Bindery. C opy number 37 of 48 , signed by the author/artist.
Samples from the Flora N. Davidson Collection of decorated paper. Call number:
Collection C Davidson (decorated papers).
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