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SWEET, Robert. The British Flower Garden, (Series the Second,) containing Coloured Figures & Descriptions of the most Ornamental and Curious Hardy Flowering Plants, London: James Ridgway & Sons, 1831-1838. 4 volumes (Second Series only), large 8 (241 x 154mm.), 412 hand-coloured engraved plates after E. D. Smith and others (some light offsetting, a little staining mainly to margins), 19th-century half morocco, spines gilt in compartments (extremities lightly rubbed), g.e. FIRST EDITION. Great Flower Books p.77; Nissen BBI 1923
This set forms an extensive and valuable record of the flowers then under cultivation in England. Sweet's nursery was at Cook's Ground, Chelsea.
This set forms an extensive and valuable record of the flowers then under cultivation in England. Sweet's nursery was at Cook's Ground, Chelsea.