Robert Sweet | The British Flower Garden, 1823-1838, 7 volumes

Robert Sweet

The British Flower Garden; Containing Coloured Figures & Descriptions of the Most Ornamental and Curious Hardy Flowering Plants, Including Annuals, Biennials, & Perennials... London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1823-1838

FIRST EDITION, 7 volumes, 8vo (234 x 142 mm.), 712 hand-coloured engraved plates (7 folding) by Weddell, F.W. Smith, and others after E.D. Smith, J. Hart, and others, contemporary brown calf, rebacked, Volume I: small tear to lower/outer margin of B2 text leaf (not affecting text), a few plates shaved at outer margin 

LITERATURE:

Dunthorne 293; Great Flower Books, p. 77; Nissen BBI 1923; Stafleu TL2 13.545