JANE WELLS LOUDON (1807-1858) The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants . London: Bradbury & Evans for William Smith 1848. 4 (272 x 209mm). Half-title, 42 hand-coloured lithographic plates. Contemporary green half morocco gilt, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with repeat overall decoration, yellow glazed endpapers, gilt edges (very light old scuffing to extremities). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Jane Webb married John Loudon (botanist, gardener, farmer and horticultural writer) in 1830, when she was 23 and he 47. He had sought her out after reviewing a copy of her first published novel The Mummy, a tale of the twenty-second century . They met in February 1830 and married on 14 September. By 1838 John Loudon was seriously in debt and Mrs. Loudon was prompted to write botanical works on her own account. The Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Annuals appeared in 1840, and proved to be the first of an increasing flow of populist works to appear throughout the 1840's, the best known of which are The Ladies' Flower Garden of ornamental bulbous plants (1841), of ornamental perennials (2 vols., 1843-1844); British Wild Flowers (1846) and the present work. Fine Flower Books p.115; Nissen BBI 1237.
JANE WELLS LOUDON (1807-1858) The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants . London: Bradbury & Evans for William Smith 1848. 4 (272 x 209mm). Half-title, 42 hand-coloured lithographic plates. Contemporary green half morocco gilt, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with repeat overall decoration, yellow glazed endpapers, gilt edges (very light old scuffing to extremities). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Jane Webb married John Loudon (botanist, gardener, farmer and horticultural writer) in 1830, when she was 23 and he 47. He had sought her out after reviewing a copy of her first published novel The Mummy, a tale of the twenty-second century . They met in February 1830 and married on 14 September. By 1838 John Loudon was seriously in debt and Mrs. Loudon was prompted to write botanical works on her own account. The Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Annuals appeared in 1840, and proved to be the first of an increasing flow of populist works to appear throughout the 1840's, the best known of which are The Ladies' Flower Garden of ornamental bulbous plants (1841), of ornamental perennials (2 vols., 1843-1844); British Wild Flowers (1846) and the present work. Fine Flower Books p.115; Nissen BBI 1237.
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