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MAUND, Benjamin (1790-1864). The Botanic Garden. London: Baldwin & Cradock, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Sherwood & Co., and Groombridge & Co., 1825 [-51].
13 volumes, 4° (210 x 167mm). Letterpress titles, prefaces, indices, engraved title to each volume, engraved dedication (in vol. IV), 312 hand-coloured engraved plates by S. Watts after Mrs. E. Bury, Miss S. Maund, Miss E. Maund, E. D. Smith and Mills, each plate showing four plants. (Engraved titles with some spotting, plate 193 loose, one or two plates in vol. II with slight crease.)
[With:] Benjamin MAUND. The Fruitist; a treatise on orchard and garden fruits. London: Groombridge and sons, [n.d.]. 72 engraved illustrations of fruit, printed in colour and finished by hand, each within printed ornamental fruit border. [With:] The Auctarium. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. and Groombridge & sons, [1834-50]. 2 volumes. [With:] The Floral Register. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. and Groombridge & sons, [1835-50]. 2 volumes, illustrations in the text. Together 18 volumes, 4°. Uniform contemporary green half morocco, spines in six compartments, lettered in two (occasional light rubbing).
A complete set of the first edition of the Botanic Garden and all Maund's accompanying publications. The Botanic Garden was published over a period of twenty-six years, in monthly numbers. Twelve numbers formed one part, and two parts formed one volume. The present copy of the Auctarium appears to be complete, comprising two parts in two volumes: Stafleu requires an additional pages 1-96 at the end of part I, but does not state what this comprises. Nissen BBI 2222; Dunthorne 198-200; Great Flower Books p.85; Stafleu & Cowan 5712 & 5714-5. (18)
13 volumes, 4° (210 x 167mm). Letterpress titles, prefaces, indices, engraved title to each volume, engraved dedication (in vol. IV), 312 hand-coloured engraved plates by S. Watts after Mrs. E. Bury, Miss S. Maund, Miss E. Maund, E. D. Smith and Mills, each plate showing four plants. (Engraved titles with some spotting, plate 193 loose, one or two plates in vol. II with slight crease.)
[With:] Benjamin MAUND. The Fruitist; a treatise on orchard and garden fruits. London: Groombridge and sons, [n.d.]. 72 engraved illustrations of fruit, printed in colour and finished by hand, each within printed ornamental fruit border. [With:] The Auctarium. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. and Groombridge & sons, [1834-50]. 2 volumes. [With:] The Floral Register. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. and Groombridge & sons, [1835-50]. 2 volumes, illustrations in the text. Together 18 volumes, 4°. Uniform contemporary green half morocco, spines in six compartments, lettered in two (occasional light rubbing).
A complete set of the first edition of the Botanic Garden and all Maund's accompanying publications. The Botanic Garden was published over a period of twenty-six years, in monthly numbers. Twelve numbers formed one part, and two parts formed one volume. The present copy of the Auctarium appears to be complete, comprising two parts in two volumes: Stafleu requires an additional pages 1-96 at the end of part I, but does not state what this comprises. Nissen BBI 2222; Dunthorne 198-200; Great Flower Books p.85; Stafleu & Cowan 5712 & 5714-5. (18)