Lilium Cordifolium, by H. J. Elwes Black Pepper Gentlemen's Sports are illustrations of

Gentlemen's Sports are illustrations of boxing

From the collection - A Dozen Roses by Mary Lawrence:

Manufacturers used large format catalogs with illustrations of the latest fashions

He also published a volume of black and white antique vases (later hand colored) from a private collection

Perhaps no other wonder has dominated the fields of art and science as much as birds

Lilium Cordifolium, by H. J. Elwes Black Pepper Gentlemen's Sports are illustrations ofTHE VICTORIAN ERA H. J. Elwes (1846 1922), a widely traveled naturalist explorer who first became interested in lilies on a trip to the Himalayas. His folio, "A Monograph of the Genus Lilium" was issued on several stages between 1877 and 1880. The plates were drawn by H. J. Elwes, Lilian Snelling and Margaret Stones. H. J. Elwes wrote the text which included all known lilies at that time. The original folios were primarily hand colored lithographs