Lot 121
121
THORNTON, Robert John (1768-1837). Temple of Flora, or Garden of the Botanist poet, Painter and Philosopher. London: for the author 1812. 4° (377 x 305mm). Engraved title on 2 leaves, 29 coloured engraved botanical plates, finished by hand, including frontispiece, and 2 allegorical plates. (Occasional light browning, some waterstaining and soiling at start.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers (rebacked, preserving most of old spine, edges restored, covers soiled and stained). Provenance: William Bennett (handwritten bookplate) -- Dulau and Co. (booksellers' label) -- Richard and Margot Walker (bookplate).
THORNTON, Robert John (1768-1837). Temple of Flora, or Garden of the Botanist poet, Painter and Philosopher. London: for the author 1812. 4° (377 x 305mm). Engraved title on 2 leaves, 29 coloured engraved botanical plates, finished by hand, including frontispiece, and 2 allegorical plates. (Occasional light browning, some waterstaining and soiling at start.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers (rebacked, preserving most of old spine, edges restored, covers soiled and stained). Provenance: William Bennett (handwritten bookplate) -- Dulau and Co. (booksellers' label) -- Richard and Margot Walker (bookplate).

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THORNTON, Robert John (1768-1837). Temple of Flora, or Garden of the Botanist poet, Painter and Philosopher. London: for the author 1812. 4° (377 x 305mm). Engraved title on 2 leaves, 29 coloured engraved botanical plates, finished by hand, including frontispiece, and 2 allegorical plates. (Occasional light browning, some waterstaining and soiling at start.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers (rebacked, preserving most of old spine, edges restored, covers soiled and stained). Provenance: William Bennett (handwritten bookplate) -- Dulau and Co. (booksellers' label) -- Richard and Margot Walker (bookplate).

The small format edition of the Temple of Flora. 'No two copies are alike because the plates were engraved by various processes, the impressions taken from them printed in colour and finished by hand, and altered in several instances' (Stafleu & Cowan). This copy contains an additional plate, 'Persian Cyclamen' not called for by Dunthorne. Dunthorne 302; cf. Nissen BBI 1955; Stafleu & Cowan 14.283.

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