ROBERT SWEET (1783-1835) The British Flower Garden [First series] . London: printed by Tilling, published by W.Simpkin & R.Marshall for the author, 1823-1829, 3 vols.; ... (Series the Second). London: printed by Tilling for James Ridgway, 1831-1838, 4 vols. The 2 works bound in seven volumes, 8° (229 x 144mm). 712 hand-coloured engraved plates (one double-page, 6 folding) by Weddell, F.W.Smith and others after E.D.Smith, J.Hart and others. (Occasional mainly light offsetting of text onto plates, the double-page plate [number 70 in series I] torn at fold and repaired.) Contemporary green half calf (the final volume in the second series bound to match in green half morocco), spines gilt (some discolouration and rubbing to the spines, later black morocco lettering-pieces), the final volume by Hering, the others unsigned. Provenance : S.Dawson (inscriptions in each volume). FIRST EDITION. Robert Sweet was born and raised in the West Country and served his apprenticeship under his half-brother James in gardens at Ham Green, residence of Richard Bright. He was subsequently gardener to John Julius Angerstein at Woodlands. From 1810 until the mid-1820s he worked as a nurseryman at various locations near London, being elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in February 1812. After 1826 he devoted himself almost entirely to botanical publications such as the present work. "In June 1831 his brain gave way. He died on 20 Jan. 1835, leaving a widow but no family" ( DNB ). The publisher, James Ridgway, continued the work until December 1837. Dunthorne 293; Great Flower Books p.77; Nissen BBI 1923; Stafleu & Cowan 13.545 [and 2493 i.e. A.H.Haworth's A monograph of.. the Narcissineae , bound in to vol.I of the 2nd series]. Sold as a periodical not subject to return. (7)
ROBERT SWEET (1783-1835) The British Flower Garden [First series] . London: printed by Tilling, published by W.Simpkin & R.Marshall for the author, 1823-1829, 3 vols.; ... (Series the Second). London: printed by Tilling for James Ridgway, 1831-1838, 4 vols. The 2 works bound in seven volumes, 8° (229 x 144mm). 712 hand-coloured engraved plates (one double-page, 6 folding) by Weddell, F.W.Smith and others after E.D.Smith, J.Hart and others. (Occasional mainly light offsetting of text onto plates, the double-page plate [number 70 in series I] torn at fold and repaired.) Contemporary green half calf (the final volume in the second series bound to match in green half morocco), spines gilt (some discolouration and rubbing to the spines, later black morocco lettering-pieces), the final volume by Hering, the others unsigned. Provenance : S.Dawson (inscriptions in each volume). FIRST EDITION. Robert Sweet was born and raised in the West Country and served his apprenticeship under his half-brother James in gardens at Ham Green, residence of Richard Bright. He was subsequently gardener to John Julius Angerstein at Woodlands. From 1810 until the mid-1820s he worked as a nurseryman at various locations near London, being elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in February 1812. After 1826 he devoted himself almost entirely to botanical publications such as the present work. "In June 1831 his brain gave way. He died on 20 Jan. 1835, leaving a widow but no family" ( DNB ). The publisher, James Ridgway, continued the work until December 1837. Dunthorne 293; Great Flower Books p.77; Nissen BBI 1923; Stafleu & Cowan 13.545 [and 2493 i.e. A.H.Haworth's A monograph of.. the Narcissineae , bound in to vol.I of the 2nd series]. Sold as a periodical not subject to return. (7)
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