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JANE WELLS LOUDON (1807-1858)
British Wild Flowers; The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants; ...of Ornamental Perennials; ...of Ornamental Annuals; ...of Ornamental Bulbous Plants. London: Stewart & Murra for William S.Orr & Co., [1855; circa 1850]. 5 works in 5 volumes, 4 (289 x 227mm). 300 hand-coloured lithographic plates. (Some light spotting, Plate 38 in the Ornamental Bulbs browned.) Uniform contemporary green morocco gilt, the covers elaborately ruled and tooled with a wide decorative border, the spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in two, the others with repeat overall decoration, gilt turn-ins, purple watered silk liners, g.e.
A VERY FINE SET OF THIS JUSTLY RENOWNED SERIES, second editions. Jane Webb married John Loudon (botanist, gardener, farmer and horticultural writer) in 1830, she was 23 and he 47. He had sought her out after reviewing a copy of her first published novel The Mummy, a tale of the twenty-second century. They met in February 1830 and married on 14 September. By 1838 John Loudon was seriously in debt and Mrs. Loudon was prompted to write botanical works on her own account. The Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Annuals appeared in 1840, and proved to be the first of an increasing flow of populist works to appear throughout the 'forties. It is interesting to note that the plates for the Wild Flowers are after H.Noel Humphreys and first appeared in this second edition. Fine Flower Books p.115; Nissen BBI 1233, cf. 1234-37. (5)
British Wild Flowers; The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants; ...of Ornamental Perennials; ...of Ornamental Annuals; ...of Ornamental Bulbous Plants. London: Stewart & Murra for William S.Orr & Co., [1855; circa 1850]. 5 works in 5 volumes, 4 (289 x 227mm). 300 hand-coloured lithographic plates. (Some light spotting, Plate 38 in the Ornamental Bulbs browned.) Uniform contemporary green morocco gilt, the covers elaborately ruled and tooled with a wide decorative border, the spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in two, the others with repeat overall decoration, gilt turn-ins, purple watered silk liners, g.e.
A VERY FINE SET OF THIS JUSTLY RENOWNED SERIES, second editions. Jane Webb married John Loudon (botanist, gardener, farmer and horticultural writer) in 1830, she was 23 and he 47. He had sought her out after reviewing a copy of her first published novel The Mummy, a tale of the twenty-second century. They met in February 1830 and married on 14 September. By 1838 John Loudon was seriously in debt and Mrs. Loudon was prompted to write botanical works on her own account. The Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Annuals appeared in 1840, and proved to be the first of an increasing flow of populist works to appear throughout the 'forties. It is interesting to note that the plates for the Wild Flowers are after H.Noel Humphreys and first appeared in this second edition. Fine Flower Books p.115; Nissen BBI 1233, cf. 1234-37. (5)