CURTIS, William (1746-99). Flora Londinensis: containing a History of the Plants indigenous to Great Britain, illustrated by Figures of the Natural Size ... a New Edition, Enlarged by George Graves, F.L.S. [vols. IV-V by William Jackson Hooker], London: Printed for George Graves by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1817-28. 5 volumes, 2° (481 x 295mm). 647 hand-coloured engraved or lithographed plates after Sydenham Edwards, Will Kilburn, J. Sowerby, K. Greville, George Graves and William T. Hooker, 2 index leaves loosely-inserted. (Some mainly marginal dampstaining to vol. one, occasional light spotting and staining.) 19th-century green half morocco, spines gilt in compartments, top edges gilt (lower cover of vol. one dampstained, extremities rubbed, some bumping). Brunet II, 447; Freeman 883; Henrey 595; Nissen BBI 440; Pritzel 2005; Sitwell Great Flower Books p.88. Bibliographies give varying plate counts (Brunet calls for 702 plates, for example). For this reason this set is sold not subject to return. (5)