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FURBER, Robert (1674?-1756). Twelve Months of Flowers. Kensington: Robert Furber, 1730.
Large 2° (585 x 455mm). Engraved leaf of subscribers including title and dedication to Frederick Prince of Wales within hand-coloured border, 12 FINELY HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVED PLATES by H. Fletcher after Peter Casteels. (Slightly soiled, a few small marginal tears.) Contemporary mottled calf (slightly worn).
A fine set of this rare series including the rare leaf of subscribers. Furber was a nurseryman with gardens near Hyde Park Gate in Kensington, and for many years a churchwarden at St. Mary Abbot's, Kensington. The Twelve Months of Flowers was 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: the thirteenth plate, issued after the floral plates and often not included with the series, lists over 430 subscribers. The set of twelve floral plates cost ¨2.12s.6d coloured, or ¨1.5s uncoloured. Nissen BBI 674; Henrey II, pp.343-6; Great Flower Books p.57; Dunthorne 113.
Large 2° (585 x 455mm). Engraved leaf of subscribers including title and dedication to Frederick Prince of Wales within hand-coloured border, 12 FINELY HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVED PLATES by H. Fletcher after Peter Casteels. (Slightly soiled, a few small marginal tears.) Contemporary mottled calf (slightly worn).
A fine set of this rare series including the rare leaf of subscribers. Furber was a nurseryman with gardens near Hyde Park Gate in Kensington, and for many years a churchwarden at St. Mary Abbot's, Kensington. The Twelve Months of Flowers was 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: the thirteenth plate, issued after the floral plates and often not included with the series, lists over 430 subscribers. The set of twelve floral plates cost ¨2.12s.6d coloured, or ¨1.5s uncoloured. Nissen BBI 674; Henrey II, pp.343-6; Great Flower Books p.57; Dunthorne 113.