Sydenham Edwards | The new botanic garden, London, 1812, 2 vols in 1, nineteenth-century maroon half morocco

Sydenham Edwards

The new botanic garden, illustrated with one hundred and thirty-three plants. London: T. Bensley, 1812

2 volumes bound in one, 4to (294 x 238mm.), 61 hand-coloured engraved plates by F. Sansom after Sydenham Edwards, nineteenth-century maroon half morocco, spine with raised bands in six compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, some light spotting and marginal creasing,small marginal hole to pp. 133-134 (not affecting text), tear at outer margin of pp. 223-224 (not affecting text), volume 2, plate 34 weakened along platemark at lower margin, spine slightly sunned

"The plates are well coloured and many American flowers are included". This work was "also published under the title of The New Flora Britannica, 1812", for which see lot 322, and "the same plates are used, still bearing the dates of 1805 and 1806" (Dunthorne).

LITERATURE:

Dunthorne 107; Great Flower Books, p. 56; Nissen BBI 480; Pritzel 26722