Henry Phillips

First-edition volumes of Flora Historica on horticulture and planting.

• Sold as a set of 2.
• Henry Phillips (English).
• Flora Historica, or, The Three Seasons of the British Parterre Historically and Botanically Treated; With Observations on Platings, to Secure a Regular Succession of Flowers, From the Commencement of Spring to the End of Autumn.
• London: E. Lloyd, 1824.
• Octavo.
• Bound in 19th century half calf over marbled boards with marbled edges.

Phillips (1775?–1838) was a Worthing banker, a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society and the Linnaean Society, and the author of several botanical works including the History of Cultivated Vegetables.