Observationum botanicarum fasciculus primus
A botany treatise by Romanus Adolph Hedwig, published in Leipzig in 1802 by the Schaeferian bookshop for fellow botanists and naturalists. Its plates are hand-coloured studies of plant and fungal forms, including bark, galls, fruiting bodies and fine threadlike structures, drawn with exact numbered details. A designer might take from them the organic textures of bark, spongy crusts and rusty brown-to-orange surfaces, along with the orderly grid of specimen labels on a cream ground.
