• Planche LIII from Léon Dufour's Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Vénéneux, Paris 1891, the sheet on a wide tan mount — Boletus flavus · Bolet jaune clair; Boletus flavus, var. elegans · Bolet jaune clair. var. élégante
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Boletus flavus

Antique mushroom print · Planche LIII · Paris 1891

Boletus flavus — Antique Mushroom Print, Planche LIII, Paris 1891

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Print at home · US Letter · 300 DPI

Boletus flavus and one other species, on Planche LIII of Léon Dufour's 1891 Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Vénéneux. Restored from the plate for home printing.

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sRGB, with a quarter-inch trim margin on all four sides. Print at 100% — never “fit to page”.

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All 24 plates of the first kit are available together as a complete kit, with marbled endpapers, cut-apart species labels, and a two-page provenance document.

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Two species on this sheet

N° accepted today as printed, 1891
N° 123 Boletus flavus unresolved Boletus flavusBolet jaune clair
N° 123a Boletus flavus, var. elegans unresolved Boletus flavus, var. elegansBolet jaune clair. var. élégante
file JPEG · 2550 × 3300
print size 8.5 × 11 in · 300 DPI
impression 5.9 × 9.7 in at 300 DPI

About the plate

From Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Vénéneux, Léon Dufour, Paris, 1891. Captions transcribed by hand from the plate. Édition Madame Genet.

A note on the 1891 marks

A historical document. Nomenclature and edibility assessments have changed considerably since 1891 — several species marked comestible here are now known to be toxic. Not a foraging guide.