Fungi Italici autographice delineati : (additis nonnullis extra-Italicis, Asterisco notatis)
Fungi Italici autographice delineati is a hand-drawn scientific plate book of Italian fungi, issued by the mycologist Pier Andrea Saccardo at his own expense and lithographed in Padua in 1877 for fellow botanists and researchers. Its pages are numbered plates, each showing a species in colour with dissected spores, asci and fruiting structures labelled in pencil and ink. A designer might take from them the precise, annotated specimen layout, with small repeated motifs of spore clusters and fine hand-lettered Latin captions arranged in tidy grids.
