SWEET, Robert (1783-1835). Geraniaceae. The Natural Order of Gerania . London: for James Ridgway, 1820-1830. 5 volumes, 8° (225 x 145mm). 500 hand-coloured engraved plates by S. Watts after Edwin Dalton Smith and M. Hart, many heightened with gum arabic, numbered 1-400 and 1-100. (A few leaves detached, including 6 plates, at beginning of vols. I, IV, V and at end of vol. III, occasional very light unobtrusive spotting, brown spot affecting image on plates 117 and 118, light offsetting to a few plates). Green morocco gilt by J. Wright, covers with elaborate borders of flowers and fruit, gilt edges (spines slightly faded). FIRST EDITION OF SWEET'S HIGHLY DECORATIVE MONOGRAPH ON THE GERANIUM and practical guide to its cultivation. An invaluable source of information on the numerous varieties of geranium introduced into the gardens of Great Britain, each plate accurately illustrates a single variety, accompanied by a taxonomic description and instructions for its cultivation and care. A horticulturalist, botanist and ornithologist, Sweet was born and raised in Devon, serving his apprenticeship under his half-brother James in the 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 Stockwell, Fulham and Chelsea, being elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1812. After 1826 he devoted himself almost entirely to botanical publications. Dunthorne, p.241; Great Flower Books , p.141; Nissen BBI 1926; Stafleu and Cowan VI, 13543. (5)
SWEET, Robert (1783-1835). Geraniaceae. The Natural Order of Gerania . London: for James Ridgway, 1820-1830. 5 volumes, 8° (225 x 145mm). 500 hand-coloured engraved plates by S. Watts after Edwin Dalton Smith and M. Hart, many heightened with gum arabic, numbered 1-400 and 1-100. (A few leaves detached, including 6 plates, at beginning of vols. I, IV, V and at end of vol. III, occasional very light unobtrusive spotting, brown spot affecting image on plates 117 and 118, light offsetting to a few plates). Green morocco gilt by J. Wright, covers with elaborate borders of flowers and fruit, gilt edges (spines slightly faded). FIRST EDITION OF SWEET'S HIGHLY DECORATIVE MONOGRAPH ON THE GERANIUM and practical guide to its cultivation. An invaluable source of information on the numerous varieties of geranium introduced into the gardens of Great Britain, each plate accurately illustrates a single variety, accompanied by a taxonomic description and instructions for its cultivation and care. A horticulturalist, botanist and ornithologist, Sweet was born and raised in Devon, serving his apprenticeship under his half-brother James in the 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 Stockwell, Fulham and Chelsea, being elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1812. After 1826 he devoted himself almost entirely to botanical publications. Dunthorne, p.241; Great Flower Books , p.141; Nissen BBI 1926; Stafleu and Cowan VI, 13543. (5)
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