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ROBERT SWEET (1783-1835)
The British Flower Garden. London: printed by Tilling, published for the author by W.Simpkin & R.Marshall (1st series); for James Ridgway (2nd series), 1823-1835.
6 volumes only (of 7: lacking vol.IV of the second series), 8° in 4s (240 x 154mm). 600 hand-coloured engraved plates after E.D.Smith and others (6 folding). (Occasional light spotting, soiling or offsetting of text onto the images.) Modern light brown half calf gilt, green morocco lettering-pieces on spine, t.e.g., bound for Wheldon and Wesley Ltd. Provenance: Arpad Plesch (booklabel, sale: Sotheby 15 March 1976 lot 728).
FIRST EDITION. The fine set with a distinguished provenance, but lacking the final section including 112 plates, it nevertheless forms an extensive and valuable record of the flowers then under cultivation in England. Sweet's nursery was at Cook's Ground, Chelsea. Dunthorne 293; Great Flower Books p.77; Nissen BBI p.77. Bound with (in vol.I of the second series): Adrian Hardy HAWORTH (1768-1833). A Monograph on the subordo v. of Amaryllideae, containing the Narcissineae. London: Tilling, 1831. 8° (240 x 154mm). 16pp. Drophead title. FIRST EDITION. According to Stafleu this work was issued as an appendix to 1 June 1831 issue of the first work. Cf. Pritzel 3861; Stafleu & Cowan 2493. (6)
The British Flower Garden. London: printed by Tilling, published for the author by W.Simpkin & R.Marshall (1st series); for James Ridgway (2nd series), 1823-1835.
6 volumes only (of 7: lacking vol.IV of the second series), 8° in 4s (240 x 154mm). 600 hand-coloured engraved plates after E.D.Smith and others (6 folding). (Occasional light spotting, soiling or offsetting of text onto the images.) Modern light brown half calf gilt, green morocco lettering-pieces on spine, t.e.g., bound for Wheldon and Wesley Ltd. Provenance: Arpad Plesch (booklabel, sale: Sotheby 15 March 1976 lot 728).
FIRST EDITION. The fine set with a distinguished provenance, but lacking the final section including 112 plates, it nevertheless forms an extensive and valuable record of the flowers then under cultivation in England. Sweet's nursery was at Cook's Ground, Chelsea. Dunthorne 293; Great Flower Books p.77; Nissen BBI p.77. Bound with (in vol.I of the second series): Adrian Hardy HAWORTH (1768-1833). A Monograph on the subordo v. of Amaryllideae, containing the Narcissineae. London: Tilling, 1831. 8° (240 x 154mm). 16pp. Drophead title. FIRST EDITION. According to Stafleu this work was issued as an appendix to 1 June 1831 issue of the first work. Cf. Pritzel 3861; Stafleu & Cowan 2493. (6)