Issued in parts (sometimes considered a periodical publication): 4 plates per livraison; 12 livraisons per volume. Some of the later livraisons came out in sets of 2. The last installment was published Dec. 1906, containing livraisons 9-12 of v. 17.

Imprint varies.

"A partir du vol. 3, l'imprimeur ets Eug. Vander Haeghen"--Record in the online library catalog of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France).

Vol. 12 (1896) edited by A. Cogniaux; R.A. Rolfe was a contributing editor to some of the later volumes.

English translation: 13 v. (Feb. 1891-July 1898), of 24 plates each, limited to the plates of the 2nd half of v. 6 of the original ed., and v. 7-12, numbered CCLXV-DCXXIV.

Illustrators include: C. de Bruyne, E. Bungeroth, A. Goossens, E. Panneel, P. de Pannemaeker, P. de Tollenaere, G. Putzys, C. Triest and others; lithographers include: G. Severeyns, P. de Pannemaeker, S. De Leeuw, and others.

Text printed in red and black.

The plates are numbered I-DCCXCIV, DCCXCVI-DCCCXIV.

Plate DXXV is the only uncolored plate.

Plates CXXIX and CXXXII have corrected caption labels.

Plates accompanied by blank tissue guard-sheets.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), 2348

Stafleu & Cowan. Taxonomic lit., 4628

CHMRB has v. 1-6,14-16, only.

CHMRB copy has bookplate: Robert W. Chanler Bequest, 1933; v. 4 has armorial bookplate of Helen K. Pitcher, with motto: Vincit qui patitur. Accession nos.: 8464-8467 (8467 covers multiple volumes).

CHMRB copy imperfect: v. 5 is incomplete and has livr. 3-12 (p. 21-102, plates CCI-CCXL) only; v. 6 is incomplete and has livr. 1-6 (p. [1]-52 and plates CCXLI-CCLXIV) only; plate DCXXXVII in v. 14 is wanting.

CHMRB copy has some advertisements laid in for orchid sales and publications.

CHMRB copy has v. 1-4 bound in old brown half-leather with burgundy embossed-cloth-covered boards, raised bands, gilt-tooled spine, marbled endpapers, and top-edge gilt; v. 5-6, 14-16 have the original printed paper wrappers, laid inside red paperboard portfolios with red cloth spines and ties, housed in brown buckram library portfolios with white-lettered spines.