J. Duke | The compleat florist, 1740, 2 volumes

J. Duke

The compleat florist. London: J. Duke and J. Carwitham, 1740

FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (220 x 140mm.), engraved and coloured by hand throughout, frontispiece, titles with floral border, 100 plates, contemporary mottled calf, binding rebacked and repaired, retaining one original label, the other made to match

THE RARE FIRST EDITION of this collection of flower plates, not traced in Nissen or Dunthorne. Most copies recorded are the second edition of 1747.

LITERATURE:

Dunthorne 102 (second edition); Henrey 3:567; Nissen BBI 554 (second edition)

PROVENANCE:

Edward Francklin of Rainham, eighteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate