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EDWARDS, John (1742-c.1806)

Lot 109
13.12.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1105623
Lot 109 | EDWARDS, John (1742-c.1806)
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£ 7 000 – 10 000
EDWARDS, John (1742-c.1806)

The British Herbal, Containing One Hundred Plates of the Most Beautiful and Scarce Flowers and Useful Medicinal Plants which Blow in the Open Air of Great Britain … London: printed for the author, 1770.

‘An outstanding folio volume … [by] one of the most notable Engliash botanical artisits of the eighteenth century’ (Henrey). Edwards' work is not really a herbal at all ‘as a number of the species figured have no medical interest, and without doubt the plants were chosen for their decorative value’ (Henrey). It was probably on account of this that many flowers on Worcester porcelain were directly inspired by Edwards’ work. Dunthorne 104; Great Flower Books (1990) p.93; Henrey II, pp.17-18 and III, 675; Nissen BBI 578.



Folio (467 x 284mm). First edition, second issue, 100 fine hand-coloured engraved plates by John Edwards (pl.1 with expertly repaired 40mm tear without loss and not into image, occasional faint scattered spotting and show-through). Modern half calf preserving contemporary English red morocco spine panels gilt-tooled to a chequered design and green morocco gilt lettering-piece, as well as contemporary marbled endpapers. Provenance: Field Marshal John Griffin Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, 1st Baron Braybrooke (1719-1797; ink ownership inscription found under original pastedown and now preserved tipped onto front pastedown) – Lord Braybrooke (engraved bookplate with arms of the 2nd Baron Braybrooke [1750-1825] or 3rd Baron Braybrooke [1783-1858] – An Important Botanical Library Part I, Christie’s New York 4 June 1997, lot 42.

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