CD of 42 pictures of botanical prints by Paxton

Sir Joseph Paxton's Magazine of Botany from 1837

CD of incredibly detailed scans of 42 immaculate antique prints of beautiful flowers

NEW BENEFIT ! This CD has even higher resolution images - 200dpi resolution instead of 150dpi on most of our other CDs

Page down to see a selection of the prints, the contents list and to read about their history

$59.99 - order #CD025

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Includes a bonus of a wonderful screen saver of the prints

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Benefits

Save money - print accurate copies of beautiful antique prints for a fraction of their cost
Study them before investing in the original prints
Illustrate educational projects
Use them to create art, greeting cards, calendars, postcards and posters, computer wallpaper and clip art
Enjoy the screensaver of the prints

Features

Scans are of the original antique prints
Scans are exactly same dimensions as original antique print
Scans are saved as bitmap files (.bmp) so all detail is retained (unlike jpg files)
Each image file is several megabytes large! Prints were scanned at 300dpi and saved at 150dpi (similar to the resolution of most digital photos)
Print direct from the CD or from programs such as Microsoft Picture It, Adobe Photoshop, Corel PhotoPaint, Macromedia Fireworks and Paint Shop Pro

Examples of the antique prints on the CD These are small images for display on this web page. The scans on the CD are much bigger (same size as original antique print) and far higher quality

Showy Nemophila Nemophila insignis - USA - California	Reddish Blue Morning Glory Ipomaea rubra caerulea - Mexico		Blue Ginger or Blue Flowered Bamboo Dichorisandria thyrsiflora - Brazil

Captain Rowe's Camellia (double sized fold out print) Camellia reticulata - China		Oleander - first illustration of species - double sized Nerium Thyrsiflorum - Nepal (margin bigger than shown)

Heliconia (double sized fold out print) Heliconia braziliensis - Brazil		Banana (double sized print, margin bigger than shown) Musa cavendishii - China, Mauritius

Splendid hibiscus Hibiscus splendens - Australia	Platanus Leaved Begonia Begonia platanifolia - Brazil		Orchid Dendobrium moniliforme - Japan and China

Azalea Azalea Rawsonii - Hybrid	Purple Side Saddle Flower (Carnivorous) Sarracenia purpurea - USA and Canada		Morning Glory (Double sized print - margin bigger than shown Ipomaea horsfalliae - Africa or East Indies

Great Flowered Scarlet Ixora Ixora Grandiflora - China, Sri Lanka, East Indies	Californian Poppy or Saffron colored Eschscholtzia Eschscholtzia crocea - USA - California		Mr Murray's Scarlet penstemon Penstemon murrayanus - USA - Texas, California, West USA

Common Ladies Slipper Orchid Cypripedium calceolus - UK	Three Lobed Birth Wort Aristolochia trilobata - S. America Chile,Venezuela,Colombia		Orchid - Mr Mackay's Zygopetalon Zygopetalon mackaii

Snapdragon Collinsia bicolor - USA - California and West	Curled Nightshade Solanum Crispum - Chile		Australian Wild Flower Hovea celsis - Australia

Vine Leaved Phacelia Phacelia vinifolia - USA - Texas	Californian annuals Leptosiphon androsaceus - USA - California		Witsenia Witsenia corymbosa - South Africa

Cushion Lipped Orchid Oncidium divaricatum - Brazil	Pungent Leaved Eutaxia Eutaxia pungens - Australia		Cunningham's Acacia Acacia vestita - Australia

Talisman Slipper Wort Calceolaria corymbosa var Talisman - Chile	Cock's Comb Coral Tree Erythrina cristagalli - Brazil, Colombia		Splendid Crimson Kennedia Kennedia splendens - S.America - Chile, Brazil, Argentina

Narcissus flowered ismene (double sized fold out print) Ismene amancaes - Brazil, Peru - used as a hair ornament		Pagoda Flower Clerodendrum speciosissimum - Java

Centaury - used by ancient Greeks for healing Chironia nervis - Greece	Captain Mangle's Rhodanthe Rhodanthe manglesii - Australia - Swan River		White Flowered Winged Thunbergia Thunbergia alata var alba - South Africa

Aloe Leaved Yucca or Spanish Bayonet Yucca Aloifolia - South America	Protea Dryandra longifolia - Australia		Carolina Gardoquia Gardoquia hookeri - USA - South Carolina

Contents of the CD

The CD contains:

1. 42 Incredibly detailed scans of original antique prints of beautiful flowers including some fantastic orchids, hibiscus, azalea and more. The scans are much more detailed and higher quality than those on this web site. When printed on a typical ink jet printer they are a very close match to the original antique prints.

2. A full contents list detailing the latin name, common name and country of origin of each plant. The flowers include the following

3. An excellent screen saver featuring all the colored prints.

Information	The scans on this CD were made from original 170 year old antique prints from a work by Sir Joseph Paxton. Paxton was a hugely talented man. He started as an assistant gardener with no education & rose to become the head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire. His design of the conservatory at Chatsworth House served as a model for his design of the Crystal Palace for the London Exhibition of 1851. Incredibly, he designed this giant, intricate building in less than 9 days on a piece of blotting paper. The man must have been a genius! These days he is best remembered for his very high quality botanical periodicals such as “Paxton’s Magazine of Botany” which was published in 16 vols from 1834-49. Paxton’s prints tend to be harder to find and more expensive than other 19th century botanicals. If you look in galleries in cities such as London you will often see similar prints by Paxton for sale for many hundreds of US $.
Source	Paxton’s Magazine of Botany
Print method	The prints were hand colored lithographs which means the color is exceptionally smooth and well suited for reproduction.
Condition	The prints were in exceptionally good condition. The colors and paper were fresh and bright.
Size	9½ by 6 inches (22.5 by 16 cm) The folding double sized prints measured 12 by 9½ inches (31 by 22.5 cm).

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Sir Joseph Paxton's Magazine of Botany from 1837

CD of incredibly detailed scans of 42 immaculate antique prints of beautiful flowers

NEW BENEFIT ! This CD has even higher resolution images - 200dpi resolution instead of 150dpi on most of our other CDs

$59.99 - order #CD025

Benefits

Features

Examples of the antique prints on the CD

Showy Nemophila

Reddish Blue Morning Glory

Blue Ginger or Blue Flowered Bamboo

Captain Rowe's Camellia (double sized fold out print)

Oleander - first illustration of species - double sized

Heliconia (double sized fold out print)

Banana (double sized print, margin bigger than shown)

Splendid hibiscus

Platanus Leaved Begonia

Orchid

Azalea

Purple Side Saddle Flower (Carnivorous)

Morning Glory (Double sized print - margin bigger than shown

Great Flowered Scarlet Ixora

Californian Poppy or Saffron colored Eschscholtzia

Mr Murray's Scarlet penstemon

Common Ladies Slipper Orchid

Three Lobed Birth Wort

Orchid - Mr Mackay's Zygopetalon

Snapdragon

Curled Nightshade

Australian Wild Flower

Vine Leaved Phacelia

Californian annuals

Witsenia

Cushion Lipped Orchid

Pungent Leaved Eutaxia

Cunningham's Acacia

Talisman Slipper Wort

Cock's Comb Coral Tree

Splendid Crimson Kennedia

Narcissus flowered ismene (double sized fold out print)

Pagoda Flower

Centaury - used by ancient Greeks for healing

Captain Mangle's Rhodanthe

White Flowered Winged Thunbergia

Aloe Leaved Yucca or Spanish Bayonet

Protea

Carolina Gardoquia

Contents of the CD