LOUDON, Jane Wells (née Webb, 1807-1858). The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals. London: Bradbury and Evans for William Smith 1840. 4° (265 x 210mm). 48 HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, some by and after Henry Noël. (Lacking preliminary text pages v-viii, plate 32 without tissue guard, occasional light spotting, heavier on final plate.) Nissen BBI 1234; cf. Stafleu & Cowan 5023 (cites a copy with 2 volumes and 96 plates, with a later issue of vol. I, possibly confusing Annuals with Perennials ). -- The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Bulbous Plants . London: Bradbury and Evans for William Smith 1841. 4° (267 x 208mm). 58 HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. (Short tear to lower margin of plate 3, not affecting image or caption, slight dampstain to plate 5, occasional spotting and soiling, especially to first few plates.) Nissen BBI 1235. -- The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials . London: Bradbury and Evans for William Smith 1843-44. 2 volumes in one, 4° (266 x 208mm). 75 HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES (only, of 96). (Lacking plates 76-96, text pages v-vi of preliminaries of vol. I, quire A of vol. II and all after p. 88 of vol. II, caption to plate 65 just shaved, tissue guard to plate 45 partially cut away, a little spotting and occasional light soiling, especially to first and last few plates.) Nissen BBI 1237. 4 volumes in 3, 4°. Uniformly bound in dark green half morocco over green cloth, g.e. (lacking backstrips, covers detached, some leaves loose). Provenance : T. H. (unidentified armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL THREE WORKS. Mrs. Loudon began to write botanical works for the amateur to raise funds for her husband, the horticultural writer and botanist John Claudius Loudon who had incurred a ¨10,000 debt in the course of producing his Arboretum et Fruticetum Brittanicum . Her own works proved extremely popular: 20,000 copies of the Ladies' Flower-Garden were sold, and by 1879 the work had run into nine editions. The success of her books, however, did not come soon enough to ease her husband's worries: he died in 1843, of chronic bronchitis partly brought about by overwork in order to pay off his creditors, who harrassed him until the end. His wife continued to published horticultural works, and new editions of her husband's writings, and was granted a pension from the Civil List in recognition of his work. (3)
LOUDON, Jane Wells (née Webb, 1807-1858). The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals. London: Bradbury and Evans for William Smith 1840. 4° (265 x 210mm). 48 HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, some by and after Henry Noël. (Lacking preliminary text pages v-viii, plate 32 without tissue guard, occasional light spotting, heavier on final plate.) Nissen BBI 1234; cf. Stafleu & Cowan 5023 (cites a copy with 2 volumes and 96 plates, with a later issue of vol. I, possibly confusing Annuals with Perennials ). -- The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Bulbous Plants . London: Bradbury and Evans for William Smith 1841. 4° (267 x 208mm). 58 HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. (Short tear to lower margin of plate 3, not affecting image or caption, slight dampstain to plate 5, occasional spotting and soiling, especially to first few plates.) Nissen BBI 1235. -- The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials . London: Bradbury and Evans for William Smith 1843-44. 2 volumes in one, 4° (266 x 208mm). 75 HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES (only, of 96). (Lacking plates 76-96, text pages v-vi of preliminaries of vol. I, quire A of vol. II and all after p. 88 of vol. II, caption to plate 65 just shaved, tissue guard to plate 45 partially cut away, a little spotting and occasional light soiling, especially to first and last few plates.) Nissen BBI 1237. 4 volumes in 3, 4°. Uniformly bound in dark green half morocco over green cloth, g.e. (lacking backstrips, covers detached, some leaves loose). Provenance : T. H. (unidentified armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL THREE WORKS. Mrs. Loudon began to write botanical works for the amateur to raise funds for her husband, the horticultural writer and botanist John Claudius Loudon who had incurred a ¨10,000 debt in the course of producing his Arboretum et Fruticetum Brittanicum . Her own works proved extremely popular: 20,000 copies of the Ladies' Flower-Garden were sold, and by 1879 the work had run into nine editions. The success of her books, however, did not come soon enough to ease her husband's worries: he died in 1843, of chronic bronchitis partly brought about by overwork in order to pay off his creditors, who harrassed him until the end. His wife continued to published horticultural works, and new editions of her husband's writings, and was granted a pension from the Civil List in recognition of his work. (3)
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