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LOUDON, Jane Wells (née Webb). The Ladies' Flower-Garden, [&c.]. London: William Smith, 1843-1848
6 volumes, 4° (274 x 210mm.), 304 hand-coloured plates mostly after the author lithographed by Day and Haghe (occasional minor spotting), uniform contemporary full green morocco, double gilt fillet border, round sides, spines gilt, g.e. (3 vols. neatly rebacked preserving original backstrips) armorial bookplate of Thomas M. Lowndes
A FINE COMPLETE UNIFORM SET OF THE WORKS OF MRS. LOUDON, the wife of John Claudius Loudon, one of the most important nineteenth century landscape gardeners and horticultural writers, comprising: The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials, 2 vols., 96 plates, 1843-44; The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals, 48 plates, 1844; The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants, 58 plates, 1844; British Wild Flowers, 60 plates, 1847; The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants, 42 plates, 1848. Nissen BBI 1233-1237 (6)
6 volumes, 4° (274 x 210mm.), 304 hand-coloured plates mostly after the author lithographed by Day and Haghe (occasional minor spotting), uniform contemporary full green morocco, double gilt fillet border, round sides, spines gilt, g.e. (3 vols. neatly rebacked preserving original backstrips) armorial bookplate of Thomas M. Lowndes
A FINE COMPLETE UNIFORM SET OF THE WORKS OF MRS. LOUDON, the wife of John Claudius Loudon, one of the most important nineteenth century landscape gardeners and horticultural writers, comprising: The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials, 2 vols., 96 plates, 1843-44; The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals, 48 plates, 1844; The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants, 58 plates, 1844; British Wild Flowers, 60 plates, 1847; The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants, 42 plates, 1848. Nissen BBI 1233-1237 (6)