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Robert Furber (c.1674-1756), [and Richard Bradley (1688-1732)]
The Flower-Garden Display'd, in above Four Hundred Curious Representations Of the most Beautiful Flowers; Regularly dispos'd in the respective months of their blossom, curiously engrav'd on copper-plates fom [sic.] the designs of Mr. Furber and others, and coloured to the life. London: printed for R. Montagu, J. Brindley and C. Corbett, 1734. 4° (253 x 196mm). Title in red and black, one page publisher's advertisements at end. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates of flowers in vases, by James Smith after Pieter Casteels. Contemporary calf gilt (neatly rebacked, old spine laid down, later red morocco label), modern green cloth box with morocco lettering piece.
Third edition, the second in quarto, with the addition of a section on hot-house gardening. This celebrated 18th-century nurseryman's catalogue is an important work, both artistically, and in the history of gardening, giving a contemporary account of the plants that were fashionable in the first half of the 18th century. The plates are reduced from those in Furber's Twelve Months of Flowers published in 1730. This folio work "was conceived as a flower catalogue, but its commercial function was adroitly veiled and the artistic quality of its illustrations distinguishes it from the more modest pamphlets generally produced by floriculturists.. in this period" (Oak Spring Flora p.143). "Despite their great profusion, every flower in these compositions is readily identifiable. They range from native species to exotic specimens from the Americas [including a number received from Mark Catesby]" (op. cit. p.146). The plates are after Pieter Casteels (1684-1749), born in Antwerp he spent most of his working life in Britain, specialising in birds and plants. He died in Richmond in 1749. 1749. Cf. Segal. Flowers and Nature 1990,p.171; Dunthorne 114; Great Flower Books (1990) p.80; Henrey III.713; Hunt 493; S.H.Johnston Cleveland's Treasures from the World of Botanical Literature p.65; Massachusetts Horticultural Society p.100; Nissen BBI 677; cf. L. Tongiorgi Tomasi An Oak Spring Flora 37.
The Flower-Garden Display'd, in above Four Hundred Curious Representations Of the most Beautiful Flowers; Regularly dispos'd in the respective months of their blossom, curiously engrav'd on copper-plates fom [sic.] the designs of Mr. Furber and others, and coloured to the life. London: printed for R. Montagu, J. Brindley and C. Corbett, 1734. 4° (253 x 196mm). Title in red and black, one page publisher's advertisements at end. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates of flowers in vases, by James Smith after Pieter Casteels. Contemporary calf gilt (neatly rebacked, old spine laid down, later red morocco label), modern green cloth box with morocco lettering piece.
Third edition, the second in quarto, with the addition of a section on hot-house gardening. This celebrated 18th-century nurseryman's catalogue is an important work, both artistically, and in the history of gardening, giving a contemporary account of the plants that were fashionable in the first half of the 18th century. The plates are reduced from those in Furber's Twelve Months of Flowers published in 1730. This folio work "was conceived as a flower catalogue, but its commercial function was adroitly veiled and the artistic quality of its illustrations distinguishes it from the more modest pamphlets generally produced by floriculturists.. in this period" (Oak Spring Flora p.143). "Despite their great profusion, every flower in these compositions is readily identifiable. They range from native species to exotic specimens from the Americas [including a number received from Mark Catesby]" (op. cit. p.146). The plates are after Pieter Casteels (1684-1749), born in Antwerp he spent most of his working life in Britain, specialising in birds and plants. He died in Richmond in 1749. 1749. Cf. Segal. Flowers and Nature 1990,p.171; Dunthorne 114; Great Flower Books (1990) p.80; Henrey III.713; Hunt 493; S.H.Johnston Cleveland's Treasures from the World of Botanical Literature p.65; Massachusetts Horticultural Society p.100; Nissen BBI 677; cf. L. Tongiorgi Tomasi An Oak Spring Flora 37.