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PENFOLD, Jane Wallas.- Madeira flowers, fruits, and ferns: a selection of botanical productions of that island, foreign and indigenous, drawn and coloured from nature / by Jane Wallas Penfold, of the Achada, Madeira.- London: Printed and published by Reeve, Brothers, 1845.- [10] p., [20] f.: [1], XX estampas; 30 cm.- E. Beautiful edition, very characteristic of the time, illustrated with a frontispiece and 20 hand-coloured lithographs (three double-paged), lithographed by R. E. B., according to drawings by the author (1820-1884), English, born in Funchal. The five preliminary sheets include a title page, a list of subscribers, a preface by the author and two poems “at the request of Jane Wallas Penfold”, one by William Wordsworth and the other by Mrs. Calverley Bewicke. Each of the prints is accompanied by a sheet with explanatory text, printed only on the verso. Small faded inscription, on the front of the text sheet of the print VII. Otherwise, a clean copy, preserving the editorial binding, gold blind tooling engraved canvas, with new endpapers and gilt edges. Pritzel, 7030. Nissen, 150.