Flora Conspicua

Lovely copy of a very ornamental Georgian gardening book with plates by William Clark. Complete with 60 finely hand-coloured engravings on steel of popular garden flowers including chrysanthemum, cyclamen, lily, lobelia, delphinium, amaryllis, azalea, wisteria, magnolia, rhododendron, poppy, peony, passionflower, Japanese quince, etc. One double page plate of a huge Chinese Moutan peony. Drawn and engraved on steel from living specimens… Read more about this item

London : Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Full, straight-grained Moroccan leather binding. Shelf wear. All edges gilt. Clean, unmarked pages. [122] pages, 60 hand-colored plates, aquatinted and lithographed.: 25 cm. Drawn and engraved from living specimens by William Clark. Clean and lovely floral plates. Nissen 1414; Plesch 558;… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Thomas Griffiths, 1830. Book. Illus. by William Clark. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo (15 x 24cm). Pp. iv, unpaginated. 60 highly attractive hand-coloured plates, some heightened with gum arabic, the plates numbered 1 - 60. Full leather binding which has been rebacked retaining the original decorative boards, spine with gilt decoration and title label. … Read more about this item

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826. First Edition. Very Good. William Clark. 8vo, 9 1/8 x 5 5/8 in. (232 x 145mm). pp [122], 60 hand-colored plates, aquatints and lithographs, by William Clark, 1 double-page, tissue-guards, occasional spotting, especially on tissue guards, small tears at top of double-page plate not affecting the image, previous owner's ink… Read more about this item

London: Thomas Griffiths, 1830. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. An attractive copy in a contemporary half morocco binding lettered and attractively decorated in gilt on spine. Marbled end-papers. Gift inscription on front end-paper. Unpaginated. With 59 of 60 beautiful hand-coloured engraved plates (1 double page) by William Clark, each with accompanying text. Index. The plates are clean and,… Read more about this item

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.