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LOUDON, Jane Webb. British Wild Flowers, London: William Smith, 1846. 4°, 60 hand-coloured lithographed plates (plate VII misbound, plate X with short tear not affecting image, plate XXVIII with a few short and one longer tear, short tear one text leaf, occasional light spotting), contemporary half morocco gilt (rubbed and scuffed). FIRST EDITION. Brunet III, 1185; Nissen BBI 1233; Pritzel 5636 (erroneously citing an 1845 edition).
Bound-in at the end are 4 additional hand-coloured lithographed plates and pp. 41-48 extracted from an unrecorded work, Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Exotic Plants (?by Jane Webb Loudon).
Bound-in at the end are 4 additional hand-coloured lithographed plates and pp. 41-48 extracted from an unrecorded work, Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Exotic Plants (?by Jane Webb Loudon).
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