Women Artists from Florilegius

Very good copy of a rare privately printed botanical book by a Victorian woman artist Complete with hand-coloured title and 20 hand-coloured botanical plates, all finely lithographed by Dean and Monday of 40 Threadneedle Street, London. All plates drawn by talented and mysterious botanical artist E.E. Gleadall. The flowers include exotic camellias, rhododendron, lady's slipper orchid, passionflower, coral tree, tiger lily, flowering cactus… Read more about this item

Very good copy of Volume CXV (45 of the Third series) of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1889. Complete with all 59 (13 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 7033-7092). All plates drawn by talented woman botanical artist Matilda Smith, lithographed by John Nugent Fitch. Includes many exotic flowers and plants including the licuala, pandan, broad thatch and carludovica palm trees, blue bird of paradise flower,… Read more about this item

Very good copy of Volume XIX (19) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1833. Complete with all 86 (8 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1565-1651). The majority by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake. Includes nine exotic species of showy orchids (Oncidium, Dendrobium, Gongora, Encyclia, Leptotes, Miltonia, Calanthe, etc.), as well as varieties of poppy, cactus, Banksia, strawberry tree, peach, passionflower, costus, hibiscus, spider… Read more about this item

Very good copy of Volume XXV (25) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1839. Complete with all 69 (3 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1-69). The majority by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake. Includes 20 exotic species of showy orchids (Stanhopea, Maxillaria, Laelia, Dendrobium, Promenaea, Prosthechea, Bifrenaria, Huntleya, Tolumnia, Rodriguezia, Rhynchostele, etc.), as well as two endangered species, lignum vitae and Daubenya aurea,… Read more about this item

Very good copy of Volume XXXIII (33) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1847. Complete with all 64 (2 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1-64). The majority by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake. Includes 20 exotic species of showy orchids (Coelogyne, Dendrobium, Cattleya, Staurochilus, Bletilla, Encyclia, Pinalia, Rhynchostylis, Oncidium, Calanthe, Brassia, Ascocentrum, etc.), as well as iris, hibiscus, bindweed, ginger lily, primrose, columbine,… Read more about this item

Very good copy of Volume XXXII (32) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1846 Complete with all 69 (3 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1-69). The majority by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake. Includes 21 exotic species of showy orchids (Cattleya, Anguloa, Cypripedium, Dendrobium, Rhyncholaelia, Trichopilia, Cycnoches, Acanthephippium, etc.), as well as peony, gardenia, fire lily, bellflower, passionfruit, desert rose, indigo, balsam, snake… Read more about this item

Very good copy of Volume XXX (30) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1844 Complete with all 67 (5 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1-67). The majority by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake. Includes 21 exotic species of showy orchids (Cattleya, Laelia, Oncidium, Bulbophyllum, Encyclia, Calanthe, Prosthechea, Anguloa, Diaphananthe, Polystachya, Pinalia, Bromheadia, endangered Aerides odorata, etc.), as well as sacred lotus, hibiscus, lupine,… Read more about this item

Very good copy of Volume XXIX (29) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1842 Complete with all 66 (6 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1-66). The majority by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake, with a few by William Herbert and William Beattie Booth. Includes 22 exotic species of showy orchids (Mormodes, Cuitlauzina, Trichocentrum, Catasetum, Bulbophyllum, Cycnoches, Acineta, Dendrobium, Renanthera, Gomesa, Lycaste, Stanhopea, etc.… Read more about this item

Very good copy of Volume XXVIII (28) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1842 Complete with all 69 (3 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1-69). The majority by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake (67) and the remaining two by William Herbert. Includes 19 exotic species of showy orchids (Cattleya, Oncidium, Epidendrum, Coelia, Vanda, Laelia, Lycaste, Bulbophyllum, Grammatophyllum, Mormodes, etc.), as well as jasmine,… Read more about this item

Very good copy of Volume XVIII (18) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1832 Complete with all 88 (8 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1477-1564). Most by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake (59), the others by J.T. Hart and (his sister?) M. Hart, William Herbert, John Lindley (1) and Charles Morgan Curtis (1). Includes many new exotic species of showy orchids (13), as… Read more about this item

Lovely copy of Rebecca Hey's charming Victorian book of botanical plates and poetry With all 26 superb botanical illustrations drawn by the author and engraved on steel by William Clark The botanical illustrations finished to a very high standard with deep, rich handcolour A companion to Moral of Flowers, this book covers woodland trees and includes plates of mostly European trees such as… Read more about this item

Lovely copy of this infamous and rare botanical by a woman artist. Henrietta Maria Moriarty turned to botanical illustration to support her four children after being left in debt by her no-good, late husband in 1804. Complete with all 50 hand-coloured copperplate engravings, dedication to Dowager Lady de Clifford, preface, list of subscribers, index. While Moriarty claims to have "delineated" the plants, the… Read more about this item

Lovely copy of a rare book on Indian flora by talented amateur female artist Lena Lowis With 30 elegant botanicals by Lena Lowis, lithographed by David Blair, and printed by M. & N. Hanhart. Among the exotic flowers portrayed are poinsettia, flame lily, bougainvillea, hibiscus, clustervine, coralbush, Rangoon creeper, Nepal trumpet flower, white orchid tree, elephant creeper, oleander, Darwin pea, bottlebrush… Read more about this item

A delightful Victorian botanical book by an aristocratic amateur artist living in India Tinted title page, 12 chromolithographic plates: preface printed in gold with botanical border, and 11 fine botanical plates each with text leaf printed in gold. Very fine botanical plates including group of flowers from Bombay, wild flowers from Mahableshwar, tulip tree, tuberose, Asian bleeding heart, jungle geranium, Bengal… Read more about this item