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FURBER, Robert (ca. 1674-1756) and Richard BRADLEY (d.1732). The Flower-Garden Display'd, in above Four Hundred Curious Representations of the most Beautiful Flowers. London: R. Montagu, J. Brindley and C. Corbett, 1734.
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FURBER, Robert (ca. 1674-1756) and Richard BRADLEY (d.1732). The Flower-Garden Display'd, in above Four Hundred Curious Representations of the most Beautiful Flowers. London: R. Montagu, J. Brindley and C. Corbett, 1734.
4o (252 x 190 mm). Title printed in red and black. Hand-colored engraved title-page and twelve hand-colored plates. (Closed tear in margin of C4, some browning and spotting.) Modern green morocco gilt. Provenance: Samuel Jones (armorial bookplate).
Second edition, with the addition of "The Flower-Garden for Gentlemen and Ladies" not present in the first edition of 1730. The plates for both quarto editions are reductions of Furber's folio Twelve Months of Flowers (1730). Peter Smith engraved the plates after the original paintings by P. Casteels. Dunthorne 114; Great Flower Books, pp.30-31; Hunt 493
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Second edition, with the addition of "The Flower-Garden for Gentlemen and Ladies" not present in the first edition of 1730. The plates for both quarto editions are reductions of Furber's folio Twelve Months of Flowers (1730). Peter Smith engraved the plates after the original paintings by P. Casteels. Dunthorne 114; Great Flower Books, pp.30-31; Hunt 493