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Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 3/4 Leather. Poor. First Edition. 11 1/8" Tall. All illustrations and many interior pages removed; contains original covers, endpapers,initial blank, title page (1846 date), contents (complete), list of plates (complete)Introduction,33 interior leaves of text (descriptions of several genus on each page), index (complete), final blank, endpaprs. Binding quite worn, moroocco spine label still bright. NO ILLUSTRATIONS< LACKING LARGE PARTS OF TEXT. [shelf]
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Mrs Loudon. British Wild Flowers. William Smith, LONDON, 1846.
Price: US$1040.74 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good to very good copy of the 1st edition in a newer half morocco binding with cobbled cloth sides, and small raised bands with gilt decoration and gilt titles in the compartments. With 60 hand coloured plates. The binding is in near fine condition with little wear. All page edges gilted. Marbled endpapers. Contents with 2 initial and final blanks, and half title with signature of Helen Tod 24 December 1846. Contents are complete with tissue guards to the plates and the original page marker which has become detached. Text pages have light toning towards the edges and occasional areas of spotting. Pages 70/71 have some text offsetting to text. The plates are beautifully coloured. Most have the odd spot in the top margin or side margin (less frequent); around 11 plates are clear; and a few have more pronounced spotting eg plate 24 and plate 60. The spotting can extend to the blank verso of the plate and there is some spotting to plate guards. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Mrs. Loudon. British Wild Flowers. William Smith, 1846.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Mrs. Loudon [309] pp. 1846 William Smith 60 colour plates Complete, including all 60 handcolored floral lithographs. A scarce title difficult to locate with all plates intact, the present a lovely example unfoxed and retaining its bright colors. Upon her marriage to landscape engineer John Claudius Loudon, Jane's career as a magazine writer took a shift toward botany. Her close collaboration with John on his Gardener's Magazine opened the door to self-education that would lead to her most important publications: The Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Annuals, Ornamental Bulbous Plants, Ornamental Perennials, British Wild Flowers, and Ornamental Greenhouse Plants (1840-1860). Both a savvy business woman and accessible writer, Jane "tapped the ready Victorian market for books popularizing horticulture, botany, and natural history.and she brought information about the natural system of plant classification to popular audiences" (ODNB). Having had to educate herself in the field, she identified with readers who had little or no education; and she became popular for inviting them into the world of plants as a place for learning, cultivation, and exploration. "My object is to enable any amateur who may find a pretty wildflower to ascertain its name and and some particulars respecting it; and, in addition to these details, I have ventured to add a few remarks on the botanical construction of most of the plants, in the hopes of inducing such of my readers as may be unacquainted with botany to study a charming science which has hitherto been too much neglected." By the time of this volume, indeed, Loudon's goals have become more activist; and she overtly situates herself as pressing for women's formalized science education. "I must confess nothing would give me more pleasure than to see botany commonly taught in girls' schools, as French and music are at present; and I think it more than probable that in another generation it will be." Dosed generously with detailed and brilliantly colored plates, British Wild Flowers offers readers an opportunity to narrow the focus of their studies and learn more about the plants native to their surroundings.
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.