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[SPECIMEN ALBUM - FERNS]. CRANWELL, Thomas. "New
[SPECIMEN ALBUM - FERNS]. CRANWELL, Thomas. "New
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[SPECIMEN ALBUM - FERNS]. CRANWELL, Thomas.   "New Zealand Ferns." Auckland, New Zealand, [ca 1875-1890].  

4to (280 x 220 mm). Album of 30 fern specimens pressed onto 30 leaves, printed name labels lower margin, by Thomas Cranwell with his stamp. Original calf-backed carved rimu wood boards. Provenance: Dorothy M. N. Davis (gift inscription, 1923).  

Thomas Cranwell, one of the best-known makes of pressed fern albums, arrived in New Zealand from Linconshire in 1862. By 1875m, he had established his own business at Parnell. He collaborated with a Bohemian cabinet-maker, Anton Seuffert, who produced many of the wooden covers for Cranwell's albums.  


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[SPECIMEN ALBUM - FERNS]. CRANWELL, Thomas. "New

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