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Loudon, Jane Webb
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description
- The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals — the Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants — The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants —The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials — British Wildflowers. London: William Smith, 1840–1846
- paper, ink, leather
Illustration: 305 handcolored lithographed plates after Jane Wells Loudon by Day & Haghe, tissue-guards.
5 works in 6 volumes, 4to (11 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.; 286 x 222 mm). Binding: Modern half green morocco gilt over the original publisher's green blindstamped cloth covers, original gilt-lettering and gilt floral vignettes on upper covers.
Condition varies, some light browning, a few rough edges, plate 23 in Ornamental Perennials and plate 15 in British Wildflowers detached. Buckram covers with some wear.
5 works in 6 volumes, 4to (11 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.; 286 x 222 mm). Binding: Modern half green morocco gilt over the original publisher's green blindstamped cloth covers, original gilt-lettering and gilt floral vignettes on upper covers.
Condition varies, some light browning, a few rough edges, plate 23 in Ornamental Perennials and plate 15 in British Wildflowers detached. Buckram covers with some wear.
Literature
Nissen 1233–1237
Condition
Condition varies, some light browning, a few rough edges, plate 23 in Ornamental Perennials and plate 15 in British Wildflowers detached. Buckram covers with some wear.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
A fine collection of popular gardening manuals by Jane Webb Loudon (1807–1858), creator of the genre. Before Mrs. Loudon's pioneering manuals, only specialist horticultural books were available in Britain. Mrs. Loudon's works, which became standard references, helped to make gardening an acceptable activity for suburban women. She was married to John Claudius Loudon, one of the most important nineteenth-century landscape gardeners and horticultural writers.
In addition to creating practical gardening guides for nonspecialists, Mrs. Loudon was an early pioneer of what would later be called science fiction. Her novel The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (1827) predicted a world in which women wore trousers, lawyers and surgeons were replaced by automatons, and information was dispersed by a system similar to the Internet. The novel is considered a feminist classic as well as a precursor of science fiction. Jane Webb met her future husband after he wrote a favorable review of her novel. They became the leading horticulturists of their day and numbered Dickens and Thackeray among their friends.