The Ladies' Flower-Garden [comprising] Ornamental Annuals (1844); Ornamental Perennials (1850); Ornamental Bulbous Plants (1850); Ornamental Greenhouse Plants (1860) and British Wild Flowers (1859), in 5 volumes, complete oblong 4to

oblong 4to

Venezuela Date Published 1986-1988 Date Published Estimated No Edition Limited edition Number of Volumes 10 Reprint No Condition Fine Condition Description A fine set in slightly edge-worn dust jackets

Publisher’s original red pictorial cloth

the inner margin of plate VII is professionally repaired at the gutter

Text in Russian with twelve-page summary in French

The Ladies' Flower-Garden [comprising] Ornamental Annuals (1844); Ornamental Perennials (1850); Ornamental Bulbous Plants (1850); Ornamental Greenhouse Plants (1860) and British Wild Flowers (1859), in 5 volumes, complete oblong 4toPp. xviii, 272; xv, 341; x, 270; xii, 215; xvi, 311; 298 hand colored lithographed plates after color paintings by Mrs. Loudon and lithography by Day and Haghe (collated complete). Contemporary one half green morocco leather by George Bayntun over pale green cloth set off my gilt lines, spine with five raised bands, each band is set off by gilt panel lines, lettered in gilt in two compartments and with gilt ornaments in the other four compartments,