GLEADALL, Eliza Eve. The Beauties of Flora with botanic and poetic illustrations being a selection of flowers drawn from nature arranged emblematically with directions for colouring them, Wakefield: Eliza Eve Gleadall, [1834], volume one (? only), 4°, hand-coloured engraved title and 20 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Eliza Eve Gleadall (text lightly spotted), contemporary half morocco (extremities rubbed). [Nissen BBI 715]

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GLEADALL, Eliza Eve. The Beauties of Flora with botanic and poetic illustrations being a selection of flowers drawn from nature arranged emblematically with directions for colouring them, Wakefield: Eliza Eve Gleadall, [1834], volume one (? only), 4°, hand-coloured engraved title and 20 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Eliza Eve Gleadall (text lightly spotted), contemporary half morocco (extremities rubbed). [Nissen BBI 715]

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Apparently complete in one volume with all plates present as listed, but Nissen calls for a second volume in 1836 and a total of 41 plates (illustrated).

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