Lot 34
  • 34

Ten lithographic coloured flowers

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • with botanical descriptions drawn and coloured by a lady. Edinburgh: David Brown, 1826
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, parts 2 to 4 only, folio (365 x 255mm.), one lithographed title (of 3), letterpress list of subscribers, lithographed text, 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates, contemporary half-morocco over cloth covered boards by Robert Seton of Edinburgh, yellow endpapers, gilt edges

Provenance

Sir John Stuart Hepburn-Forbes of Invermay, 8th Bt., engraved armorial bookplate (grandson of Sir William Forbes, 7th, an original subscriber)

Literature

Dunthorne 19; Great Flower Books, p. 70