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(See footnote Page 12). 



Fig. 4. Crassula scabra L. minor Schonl. 



The " Plantes Grasses " was issued in two sizes. The " large paper " issue has a sheet size of 21.1 x 14 in. 

 and came out in a limited edition of 100 copies. While it makes a magnificent collector's piece, the " small paper " 

 issue is easier to handle and more convenient to botanists, as well as costing less. The text has been reduced in 

 size, but the plates are exactly the same, and with narrower page margins (14 x 10^ in.) present a more dramatic 

 appearance to the eye, especially for tiny plants like T/7/oeo which are lost in a sea of white in the full folio page 

 The resetting of the text for the small paper edition has led to a few discrepancies of spelling between the two 

 versions (as p. 83) and in critical cases both should be consulted. The wrappers for each fascicle give us the 

 information that parts were sold at 50 francs, large paper, and 12 francs, small paper, but these covers were 

 apparently printed in bulk each year as needed and the part number added by hand. Thus the dates they bear 

 according to the old French calendar ( " An. VIM", " An. X ". " An, XI ", " An. XII - 1804 " and " An XIII _ 

 1804 ) seem to bear no relation to actual dates of issue, and the bland statement that " II en paraitra une chaque 

 mois ("It will appear one per month '•) was later dropped as extravagantly optimistic. 



Further problems arise from the idiotic practice of not numbering the plates.- The only way in which plates 

 can be referred to is via the number of the adjacent text, and by no means all copies are bound up in identical 

 fashion. There are sometimes two or more text pages devoted to a single plant, in which case successive leaves 



Xr th f7' "" "'^' °"' T "°" ''''"^'" Sometimes, however, the asterisk has been forgotten on 

 either the folio or quarto edmon. In the following table numbers enclosed in square brackets are mis'ing from 

 one or both editions and are supplied here for convenience of future reference. Fortunately the indices Z 

 both fascicle and plate numbers. ^ 



In addition to text and plates, a " complete " copy of the book has a title page, half title preface and index 



IpTteness of t^e IvhoTe set "'' "° ""'°^"^'" "^"'""""' '' ''^ '"^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^P^^^ - ^^e 



Since many species are described and illustrated for the first time, it is important to know the exact date of 

 publication of each plate. This is now possible for most plates thanks to Mr W T <;, • '"\^''^"„^^^^ °^ 



s.rll som. doubt : S.earn gi,., the date „ 1829. Ni.sen as 1828-31 and La,ei,„, as 1832 R2Bi. / , ^ 



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