GLEADALL, Eliza Eve. The Beauties of Flora with botanic and poetic illustrations being a selection of flowers drawn from nature. Heath Hall, near Wakefield: Eliza Eve Gleadall, [1834]. Volume I only (of 2), 4° (333 x 254mm). Lithographed title with hand-coloured decoration, 20 hand-coloured plates (text quite spotted and lightly browned, plates mostly lightly and evenly browned). Contemporary cloth (rebacked, sides rubbed with a few light stains). Provenance: S.M.C. Whitehead from H.H. Whitehead (inscription on endpaper) -- armorial bookplate with motto 'virtute et valore'. FIRST EDITION. A rare instruction book on how to paint flowers, often found without volume II. Great Flower Books p.96; Nissen BBI 715.