William Hooker and Richard Anthony Salisbury | The paradisus Londinensis, 1806-1807, 2 volumes in 1

William Hooker and Richard Anthony Salisbury

The paradisus Londinensis: containing plants cultivated in the vicinity of the metropolis. London: D.N. Shury for William Hooker, 1806

FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes bound in one, 4to (270 x 204mm.), 119 hand-coloured engraved plates after Hooker, crushed green three-quarter morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, last leaf of volume 1 and first of volume 2 spotted, some plates trimmed or cropped, mainly affecting plate numbers

Dunthorne 138; Great Flower Books, p. 75; Nissen BBI 912; Stafleu TL2 10.120

LITERATURE:

RARELY FOUND WITH THE FULL COMPLEMENT OF PLATES. This rare work contains some excellent illustrations by William Hooker (no relation to Sir William, the botanist), who was, as the title states, a pupil of

Franz Bauer. The plates mostly illustrate exotics which were fashionable in horticulture at the time. 

The work is bibliographically complex – plates 118-122 were not issued, but their text leaves were and are found in some copies but not the present one. They were also absent from the Plesch/De Belder copy.