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FURBER, Robert. The Flower-Garden Display'd in above four hundred curious representations of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in the respective months of their blossom... To which is added, a flower-garden for gentlemen and ladies being the art of raising flowers... in the depth of winter, London: for R. Montagu, J. Brindley and C. Corbett, 1734.
4° (251 x 198mm). Title in red and black. Additional engraved title with hand-coloured floral wreath, 12 contemporary hand-coloured plates by James Smith. (Light staining to additional title.) Contemporary calf (worn, covers detached). Provenance: Eliza Heath (signature).
Second edition, with some additional text, of a work that first appeared in 1732. The plates are the same compositions as Furber's Twelve Months of Flowers re-engraved on a smaller scale; the text is thought to be by Richard Bradley. Cf. Dunthorne 114; cf. Nissen BBI 677.
4° (251 x 198mm). Title in red and black. Additional engraved title with hand-coloured floral wreath, 12 contemporary hand-coloured plates by James Smith. (Light staining to additional title.) Contemporary calf (worn, covers detached). Provenance: Eliza Heath (signature).
Second edition, with some additional text, of a work that first appeared in 1732. The plates are the same compositions as Furber's Twelve Months of Flowers re-engraved on a smaller scale; the text is thought to be by Richard Bradley. Cf. Dunthorne 114; cf. Nissen BBI 677.