SOCIETY OF GARDENERS (ca. 1720-1730). Catalogus Plantarum. A Catalogue of Trees, Shrubs, Plants, and Flowers, Both Exotic and Domestic, Which are propagated for Sale in the Gardens near London . London: For the Society of Gardeners, 1730.
SOCIETY OF GARDENERS (ca. 1720-1730). Catalogus Plantarum. A Catalogue of Trees, Shrubs, Plants, and Flowers, Both Exotic and Domestic, Which are propagated for Sale in the Gardens near London . London: For the Society of Gardeners, 1730. 2 o (478 x 299 mm). Two letterpress title-pages. Engraved frontispiece by Henry Fletcher and 21 plates by H. Fletcher and F. Kirkall after Jacob Van Huysum including 7 mezzotints printed in colors, and 14 hand-colored engraved plates, printed on two paper stocks. (Some light marginal chipping, frontispiece and plate 21 with a few short marginal tears repaired on verso.) Later marbled boards with calf backstrip, edges untrimmed (lightly rubbed, corners renewed). FIRST EDITION OF "ONE OF THE EARLIEST FLOWER BOOKS TO CONTAIN PLATES PRINTED IN COLORS. It is perhaps unique in that one third of its plates are so printed, in mezzotint from a single plate, while two thirds are engraved and hand-colored in the usual way. The book is also unusual in that it is ostensibly the work of twenty authors, listed as the Society of Gardeners at the end of the Preface, though it is usually assumed that one of their number, Philip Miller was responsible for the text" (Hunt). Although three or four volumes were planned, this is the only one to be published. Among the members of the Society were Robert Furber John Thompson Christopher Gray and Francis Hunt. Dunthorne and Blunt point to the importance of the mezzotint plate of the Double Nasturtium, of which Blunt notes that it "was subsequently lost to cultivation and only reintroduced quite recently." RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , only 2 copies have sold in the last 30 years; The Lindley Library copy, Christie's London, 20 April 1983, lot 188; and the Gilger copy, Christie's New York, 14 October 2003, lot 96. Cleveland Collections 370, HA Copy 2 this copy; Dunthorne 119; Great Flower Books , p.57; Hunt 485; Nissen BBI 2230.
SOCIETY OF GARDENERS (ca. 1720-1730). Catalogus Plantarum. A Catalogue of Trees, Shrubs, Plants, and Flowers, Both Exotic and Domestic, Which are propagated for Sale in the Gardens near London . London: For the Society of Gardeners, 1730.
SOCIETY OF GARDENERS (ca. 1720-1730). Catalogus Plantarum. A Catalogue of Trees, Shrubs, Plants, and Flowers, Both Exotic and Domestic, Which are propagated for Sale in the Gardens near London . London: For the Society of Gardeners, 1730. 2 o (478 x 299 mm). Two letterpress title-pages. Engraved frontispiece by Henry Fletcher and 21 plates by H. Fletcher and F. Kirkall after Jacob Van Huysum including 7 mezzotints printed in colors, and 14 hand-colored engraved plates, printed on two paper stocks. (Some light marginal chipping, frontispiece and plate 21 with a few short marginal tears repaired on verso.) Later marbled boards with calf backstrip, edges untrimmed (lightly rubbed, corners renewed). FIRST EDITION OF "ONE OF THE EARLIEST FLOWER BOOKS TO CONTAIN PLATES PRINTED IN COLORS. It is perhaps unique in that one third of its plates are so printed, in mezzotint from a single plate, while two thirds are engraved and hand-colored in the usual way. The book is also unusual in that it is ostensibly the work of twenty authors, listed as the Society of Gardeners at the end of the Preface, though it is usually assumed that one of their number, Philip Miller was responsible for the text" (Hunt). Although three or four volumes were planned, this is the only one to be published. Among the members of the Society were Robert Furber John Thompson Christopher Gray and Francis Hunt. Dunthorne and Blunt point to the importance of the mezzotint plate of the Double Nasturtium, of which Blunt notes that it "was subsequently lost to cultivation and only reintroduced quite recently." RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , only 2 copies have sold in the last 30 years; The Lindley Library copy, Christie's London, 20 April 1983, lot 188; and the Gilger copy, Christie's New York, 14 October 2003, lot 96. Cleveland Collections 370, HA Copy 2 this copy; Dunthorne 119; Great Flower Books , p.57; Hunt 485; Nissen BBI 2230.
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