The Botanic Garden Consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, Cultivated In Great Brira

Engraved title + printed title, some foxing + 24 beautiful hand coloured plates, 4 coloured images per page, heightened with gum arabic, all with descriptive text..very good condition. Original half calf gilt over marbled boards. Raised spine bands gilt, rubbed and slightly chipped. Starting in 1825, Maund produced The Botanic Garden from his press at Bromsgrove in Worcestershire. The 13 volumes of this periodical depicted with great delicacy ornamental flowering plants cultivated in the Royal Gardens and was dedicated to the young Queen Victoria. Eminent botanical artists such as Augusta Innes Withers, Edwin D. Smith, Mrs. Edward Bury and Maund's own daughter contributed to the work....