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FURBER, Robert (1674?-1756). [Twelve Months of Flowers.] Kensington: Robert Furber, 1730.
12 FINELY HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVED PLATES, by H. Fletcher after Peter Casteels. Each plate framed and glazed.
A fine set of this rare series, in clean condition and with unusually wide margins. Furber was a nurseryman with gardens near Hyde Park Gate, in Kensington, and a churchwarden at St. Mary Abbot's, Kensington for many years. The Twelve Months of Flowers were issued as a luxurious catalogue for his stock: over 400 flowers are illustrated, and each is identified in the key below the picture, so that customers could easily order their requirements. The twelve plates were issued on a subscription basis: a thirteenth plate, issued after the floral plates but often included in the series (not present here), lists over 430 subscribers. The set of twelve floral plates cost ¨2.12s.6d coloured, or ¨1.5s uncoloured. Cf. Nissen BBI 674; Henrey II, pp. 343-6; Great Flower Books p. 57; Dunthorne 113. (12)
12 FINELY HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVED PLATES, by H. Fletcher after Peter Casteels. Each plate framed and glazed.
A fine set of this rare series, in clean condition and with unusually wide margins. Furber was a nurseryman with gardens near Hyde Park Gate, in Kensington, and a churchwarden at St. Mary Abbot's, Kensington for many years. The Twelve Months of Flowers were issued as a luxurious catalogue for his stock: over 400 flowers are illustrated, and each is identified in the key below the picture, so that customers could easily order their requirements. The twelve plates were issued on a subscription basis: a thirteenth plate, issued after the floral plates but often included in the series (not present here), lists over 430 subscribers. The set of twelve floral plates cost ¨2.12s.6d coloured, or ¨1.5s uncoloured. Cf. Nissen BBI 674; Henrey II, pp. 343-6; Great Flower Books p. 57; Dunthorne 113. (12)