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Fern Fever: The Story of Pteridomania
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Fern Fever: The Story of Pteridomania Hardback - 2012

by Sarah Whittingham

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"A fascinating literary foray" - Canadian Gardening

"This rarefied botanical pursuit is usually considered a British eccentricity, but Ms. Whittingham has turned up much proof that it reached American shores." - The New York Times

"One of those remarkable tales you never knew you needed to read and that, once begun, you never want to put down" - Dallas Morning News

Pteridomania or Fern Fever took a frantic hold in Britain from the 1840s. It was a craze fostered by an array of books and magazines and special equipment designed for fern hunting trips and the cultivation of the finds in delicate fern cases.

Sarah Whittingham has searched every nook and cranny for her subject, finding ferns in splendid glazed ferneries, Pulhamite grottoes and decoratively across every imaginable surface in the Victorian home. You would sit on your Coalbrookdale 'Fern and blackberry' garden bench and sup from your Ridgway 'Maiden Hair Fern' dinner service.

The industrious Victorians lavished much love and care (and knowledge) on their beautiful fern albums. This ravishing book shines a sympathetic light on an enthusiasm that looks as if it might well take hold again.

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  • Title Fern Fever: The Story of Pteridomania
  • Author Sarah Whittingham
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Frances Lincoln, London
  • Publication date 2012-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780711230705 / 0711230706
  • Weight 3.66 lbs (1.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.63 x 9.38 x 1.13 in (29.54 x 23.83 x 2.87 cm)
  • Category Gardening / Horticulture
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - History - Victoria, 1837-1901, Ferns, Ornamental
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 1080220
  • Dewey Decimal Code 635.9
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Fern Fever: The Story of Pteridomania
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Fern Fever: The Story of Pteridomania

by Sarah Whittingham

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Frances Lincoln Publishing, 2012. 1. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, just minor edgewear, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); 3.9 lbs; Tan dust jacket with fern illustration, and title in black lettering; 2012, Frances Lincoln Publishing; 256 pages; "Fern Fever: The Story of Pteridomania," by Sarah Whittingham.
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