Fern Fever
Subtitle: The Story of Pteridomania
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: Jan 24, 2012
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780711230705
Description: "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."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Source title: Fern Fever: The Story of Pteridomania