Auguste Faguet

Auguste Faguet produced fine botanical wood engravings to illustrate the works of Henri Ernest Baillon.

Faguet's drawings involve accurate perspective, his skill creating persuasive depth.

Faguet's other work for Baillon included "Recherches organogéniques sur la fleur femelle des conifères" of 1860, 1186 woodcuts in "Traité de botanique médicale phanérogamique" 1883–1884, 370 woodcuts in "Traité de botanique médicale cryptogamique" of 1889, "Loganiacées" of 1856 and "Bignoniacées" of 1864.

His excellent woodcuts were overtaken by the renewed use of metal printing plates for botanical illustrations.

Faguet supplied engraved text figures for Georges Octave Dujardin-Beaumetz (1833-1895) & Egasse's "Les plantes médicinales indigènes et exotiques" of 1889, and contributed to "The Floral Register", a periodical which appeared between 1825 and 1851.