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New Zealand ferns : 167 varieties

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  • Description

    "H. B. Dobbie, author of "New Zealand Ferns" (1921), had previously produced in 1880-81, three versions of a hand-made book of fern illustrations. A somewhat similar book was produced eight years later by Eric Craig in two editions. All of these are often referred to as "blue books" because the pages have full-sized, white silhouettes of ferns on a blue background. Details are given of how these books were probably made and the number produced is estimated.

    Of the 14 copies known to have survived, eleven are in New Zealand libraries, one in an overseas library and two in private hands."--McCraw JD. The "blue books" of H. B. Dobbie and Eric Craig. 1989. New Zealand Journal of Botany 27: 347-351 (accessed 30/5/2017)

  • Place
    Auckland, New Zealand
  • Other Id

    QK531.5 CRA (Library of Congress Call Number)

    18438 (Cat ID)

    11531 (DBTextworks system ID)

    9373 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

    Publications

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Catalogue

  • Object Type

    book

  • Name/Title
    New Zealand ferns : 167 varieties
  • Primary Maker

    Herbert Dobbie

     Eric Craig (Illustrator)

  • Contributor/Publisher
    Eric Craig
  • Place
    Auckland, New Zealand
  • Date
    1888?
  • Physical Description

    104 pages : all illustrations ; 28 cm

  • Language
    English
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Related Object Notes
    QH72 CRA Catalogue of botanical, ethnological, conchological and natural history specimens on sale by Eric Craig at the Curiosity Shop, Princes St., Auckland, New Zealand
    PH-RES-4181 Craig's Museum, Princes Street
  • Subject Category

    Ferns--New Zealand--Pictorial works

    Ferns--New Zealand

  • Provenance Details
    Inscribed on inside front cover: W.W. Webb, Martins Bay, Otago, New Zealand, June 1890
  • Public Access Text

    [Keywords: Nature prints--New Zealand]

    Advertisement on back cover. "Dobbie [Herbert Boucher Dobbie] handed plates over to Craig who added and rearranged selection ..." New Zealand National Bibliography, vol. 2, page 343. Album of cyanotype prints of ferns. AWMM holds a large number of fern specimens donated by Eric Craig in the Herbarium.

  • Associated Notes

    https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19230411.2.132?items_per_page=100&phrase=2&query=%22Eric+Craig%22+obituary&snippet=true&sort_by=byDA&type=ARTICLE%2cILLUSTRATION

  • Subject Notes
    Eric Craig (1829-1923) was a collector, publisher and dealer of natural history and ethnography, who ran a curio business called ?The Fern and Curiosity Dealer? near to the old Auckland Museum on Princes Street in Auckland. See link in this record to an obituary from the New Zealand Herald, 11 April 1923.
  • Collection Type
    Reserve Collection
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023

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