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MAUND (Benjamin): THE BOTANIC GARDEN, consisting of highly finished representations of hardy ornamental flowering plants cultivated in Great Britain [bound with] THE FRUITIST, a treatise on orchard and garden fruits, London, [1825-1851]
FIRST EDITION, 13 vols., 4to (220 x 175 mm.) engraved titles, additional printed titles in vols IV-XIII, Botanic Garden with 312 hand-coloured engraved plates with 1,248 figures (each plates with 4 figures) after E.D. Smith, Mrs. E. Bury and tohers, The Fruitist with 72 hand-coloured illustrations, contemporary green straight-grained morocco, sides with broad gilt fillet borders, spines similarly gilt in 6 compartments, g.e., engraved armorial bookplate of Nicholas Charrington Junr.
FINE COMPLETE SET including The Auctarium of the Botanic Garden and The Floral Register bound at the end of vols. VI-XIII. These two parts together with The Fruitist are often bound as three separate volumes but as Dunthorne 198-200 states they "generally accompany the 13 of the Botanic Garden, and form a complete set. A delightful work, not only full of useful and practical information, but illustrated with most charming plates carefully engraved and coloured". Nissen BBI 2222; Great Flower Books p. 85 (13)
FIRST EDITION, 13 vols., 4to (220 x 175 mm.) engraved titles, additional printed titles in vols IV-XIII, Botanic Garden with 312 hand-coloured engraved plates with 1,248 figures (each plates with 4 figures) after E.D. Smith, Mrs. E. Bury and tohers, The Fruitist with 72 hand-coloured illustrations, contemporary green straight-grained morocco, sides with broad gilt fillet borders, spines similarly gilt in 6 compartments, g.e., engraved armorial bookplate of Nicholas Charrington Junr.
FINE COMPLETE SET including The Auctarium of the Botanic Garden and The Floral Register bound at the end of vols. VI-XIII. These two parts together with The Fruitist are often bound as three separate volumes but as Dunthorne 198-200 states they "generally accompany the 13 of the Botanic Garden, and form a complete set. A delightful work, not only full of useful and practical information, but illustrated with most charming plates carefully engraved and coloured". Nissen BBI 2222; Great Flower Books p. 85 (13)