ID 479068
Lot 29 | The New Botanic Garden
Estimate value
$ 2 000 – 3 000
Sydenham Edwards' fine plates were first published in Dickson's A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening in 1807, and then republished by Stockdale in 1812 both under the present title and as The New Flora Britannica. See Cleveland Collections 718; Dunthorne 107; Great Flower Books (1990) p. 93; Nissen BBI 480.
Two volumes, quarto (295 x 224mm). Half-titles. 61 hand-colored engraved plates by F. Sansom after Edwards, numbered 1-60 and 19*, some with tissue guards (first few leaves short, one leaf with missing blank corner, some soiling at edges). Contemporary straight-grained red morocco gilt (wear at extremities with some scuffs to boards). Provenance: Henry A. Couper (armorial bookplate with motto “tuum est”).
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