The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I
Robert Sweet | The British Flower Garden, 1823-1838, 7 volumes
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May 18, 05:10 PM GMT
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1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Robert Sweet
The British Flower Garden; Containing Coloured Figures & Descriptions of the Most Ornamental and Curious Hardy Flowering Plants, Including Annuals, Biennials, & Perennials... London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1823-1838
FIRST EDITION, 7 volumes, 8vo (234 x 142 mm.), 712 hand-coloured engraved plates (7 folding) by Weddell, F.W. Smith, and others after E.D. Smith, J. Hart, and others, contemporary brown calf, rebacked, Volume I: small tear to lower/outer margin of B2 text leaf (not affecting text), a few plates shaved at outer margin
LITERATURE:
Dunthorne 293; Great Flower Books, p. 77; Nissen BBI 1923; Stafleu TL2 13.545