.jpg?w=1)
Details
PAXTON, Sir Joseph (1803-1865). Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and register of flowering plants. London: Bradbury & Evans for Orr & Smith (vols.I-II) or W.S.Orr & Co. (vols.III-XVI), 1834-1849.
16 volumes, 8° (vols.I-XV: 226 x 154mm.; vol.XVI: 242 x 162mm). Half-titles to vols. I-XV. 717 hand-coloured engraved or lithographic flower plates by F.W.Smith or S.Holden, 41 folding, 6 plates of designs for gardens, numerous wood-engraved illustrations. (Some plates shaved into image area as usual, folding plate in vol.I plit in half, old crease to one folding plate and slight split to fold of another in vol.IV, plate in vol.VIII detached and with light soiling and light tattering to margins, one leaf of text and following plate deatached from vol.XV.) Contemporary red half morocco, bound to match by Coupland; Best & Snowden or Forbes & Knibb, all of Southampton, spines gilt in five compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, dated in the fourth, the others tooled in blind, gilt edges.
A FINE SET. The correct number of plates is not known with certainty, Stafleu and Cowan quote the New York Botanical Society copy (with 723 plates as per the present copy) but say that they "are not sure that 723 is the exact number of plates issued". Nissen calls for 768 plates. Nissen BBI 2351; Stafleu & Cowan 7554. Sold as a periodical, not subject to return. (16)
16 volumes, 8° (vols.I-XV: 226 x 154mm.; vol.XVI: 242 x 162mm). Half-titles to vols. I-XV. 717 hand-coloured engraved or lithographic flower plates by F.W.Smith or S.Holden, 41 folding, 6 plates of designs for gardens, numerous wood-engraved illustrations. (Some plates shaved into image area as usual, folding plate in vol.I plit in half, old crease to one folding plate and slight split to fold of another in vol.IV, plate in vol.VIII detached and with light soiling and light tattering to margins, one leaf of text and following plate deatached from vol.XV.) Contemporary red half morocco, bound to match by Coupland; Best & Snowden or Forbes & Knibb, all of Southampton, spines gilt in five compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, dated in the fourth, the others tooled in blind, gilt edges.
A FINE SET. The correct number of plates is not known with certainty, Stafleu and Cowan quote the New York Botanical Society copy (with 723 plates as per the present copy) but say that they "are not sure that 723 is the exact number of plates issued". Nissen calls for 768 plates. Nissen BBI 2351; Stafleu & Cowan 7554. Sold as a periodical, not subject to return. (16)
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.