Familiar Wild Flowers 4 Volumes F Edward Hulme

Familiar Wild Flowers 4 Volumes    

Author: F Edward Hulme       

Publisher: Cassel and Company Limited   

Edition: First. No publication stated, but research indicates early 1900s 

ISBN: Not stated 

Language: English 

Condition: Good. Clean copies with tight binding. Scattered foxing and staining. 

Binding: Hardcover 

Pages: Various with colour plates. 

Additional Information

Frederick Edward Hulme (March 1841 10 April 1909) was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Freehand and Geometrical Drawing at King's College London from 1886. His most famous work was Familiar Wild Flowers.

In 1844 his family moved to London where his father taught and worked as a landscape painter. Not only was Hulme's father an accomplished landscape painter, but his maternal grandmother had also been a painter of porcelain. Hulme attended South Kensington School of Art, which is now called the Royal College of Art.

Hulme became the drawing master at Marlborough College in 1870. While there he started work on his most famous work, Familiar Wild Flowers, which was issued in parts as not only did it contain a detailed description of each flower but also its medicinal uses and habitat. The major work was the botanical illustration by Hulme of each flower which was recreated as a colour plate in each volume. 

Hulme was an amateur botanist, antiquarian and natural historian and in 1869 he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He was drawing master at Marlborough until 1883.

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