The Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery: containing coloured figures and descriptions of the most beautiful and curious flowering plants and shrubs cultivated in Great Britain … selected from the works of … Lindley … Sweet … Don … to which are added English descriptions, and the most recent practical hints … by a Practical Floriculturalist.
London: G. Willis, 1854. 4 volumes, 8vo (237 x 150 mm). 288 hand-coloured engraved plates (some heightened with gum arabic, 6 folding) after Sarah Anne Drake, E. Dalton Smith, William Herbert, and others, by Weddell, Bailey, Barclay and others. Contemporary light brown calf, tooled in gilt and blind, spines with red and green morocco lettering-pieces, marbled endpapers, g.e. Condition : lacks one half-title, folding plate 153 in vol.III split at fold and hinged with cloth; spines chipped at head and foot with small chips to three of the lettering pieces. Provenance : Lynn Abbott Trust. a fine set including a selection of plates featuring the work of some of the greatest british botanical artists of the period , re-packaged from earlier works by Lindley, Sweet and Don. Of the three, only Lindley was alive at the time of this re-issue, which was updated with text by an unidentified “practical floriculturalist”. Nissen BBI 1927 (lists the work under Sweet).
The Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery: containing coloured figures and descriptions of the most beautiful and curious flowering plants and shrubs cultivated in Great Britain … selected from the works of … Lindley … Sweet … Don … to which are added English descriptions, and the most recent practical hints … by a Practical Floriculturalist.
London: G. Willis, 1854. 4 volumes, 8vo (237 x 150 mm). 288 hand-coloured engraved plates (some heightened with gum arabic, 6 folding) after Sarah Anne Drake, E. Dalton Smith, William Herbert, and others, by Weddell, Bailey, Barclay and others. Contemporary light brown calf, tooled in gilt and blind, spines with red and green morocco lettering-pieces, marbled endpapers, g.e. Condition : lacks one half-title, folding plate 153 in vol.III split at fold and hinged with cloth; spines chipped at head and foot with small chips to three of the lettering pieces. Provenance : Lynn Abbott Trust. a fine set including a selection of plates featuring the work of some of the greatest british botanical artists of the period , re-packaged from earlier works by Lindley, Sweet and Don. Of the three, only Lindley was alive at the time of this re-issue, which was updated with text by an unidentified “practical floriculturalist”. Nissen BBI 1927 (lists the work under Sweet).
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