THE LADIES' FLOWER-GARDEN OF ORNAMENTAL ANNUALS.

LOUDON, JANE WEBB.

Verlag: London William S. Orr and Co. 1849, 1849

Beschreibung

Quarto 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. HANDSOMELY LEATHER BOUND in full period calf gilt. Spine gilt in compartments and ornate gilt boards. Marbled endpapers and, unusually, with fine gauffered edges. Binding by Webb and Hunt of Liverpool with their stamp to the endpaper. Minor scratches to the boards, inner hinge strengthened. xvi, 272 pages and illustrated with 50 FINE HAND COLOURED LITHOGRAPH BOTANICAL PLATES, complete. Clean copy. The second edition with the preface dated 1849- this edition has two more plates than the first edition. Plates with bright hand colouring. A VERY HANDSOME COPY. Jane Webb Loudon (1807 1858), creator of this genre. Before Mrs. Loudon's pioneering manuals, only specialist horticultural books were available in Britain. Mrs. Loudon's works, which became standard references, helped to make gardening an acceptable activity for suburban women. She was married to John Claudius Loudon, one of the most important nineteenth-century landscape gardeners and horticultural writers. Her style was to create hand coloured engravings of bunches of flowers - clearly illustrated in this example of her Annuals. Nissen 1234. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6374

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Titel: THE LADIES' FLOWER-GARDEN OF ORNAMENTAL ...

Verlag: London William S. Orr and Co. 1849

Erscheinungsdatum: 1849

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Auflage: 1st Edition