ladies flower garden ornamental annuals von loudon jane (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Quarto 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. HANDSOMELY LEATHER BOUND in full period calf gilt. Spine gilt in compartments and ornate gilt boards. Marbled endpapers and, unusually, with fine gauffered edges. Binding by Webb and Hunt of Liverpool with their stamp to the endpaper. Minor scratches to the boards, inner hinge strengthened. xvi, 272 pages and illustrated with 50 FINE HAND COLOURED LITHOGRAPH BOTANICAL PLATES, complete. Clean copy. The second edition with the preface dated 1849- this edition has two more plates than the first edition. Plates with bright hand colouring. A VERY HANDSOME COPY. Jane Webb Loudon (1807 1858), creator of this genre. Before Mrs. Loudon's pioneering manuals, only specialist horticultural books were available in Britain. Mrs. Loudon's works, which became standard references, helped to make gardening an acceptable activity for suburban women. She was married to John Claudius Loudon, one of the most important nineteenth-century landscape gardeners and horticultural writers. Her style was to create hand coloured engravings of bunches of flowers - clearly illustrated in this example of her Annuals. Nissen 1234.

4°. 1 nn. Bl., XVI, , 272 S., mit 48 kolorierten lithographischen Tafeln. Maroquin der Zeit mit reicher ornamentaler Deckel- und Rückenvergoldung, Steh- und Innenkantenvergoldung, Goldschnitt, (Kapitale und Gelenke gering berieben, Ecken leicht gestaucht, kleine Fehlstelle auf Vorderdeckel). Erste Ausgabe. - Nissen BBI, 1234; Sitwell S. 66; Pritzel 5632; Stafleu-C. 5023; De Belder 221. - Sehr schönes Pflanzenwerk, das in einer Reihe mit 4 anderen Titeln erschien. - "Mrs. Loudon was the wife of John Claudius Loudon, one of the most important nineteenth-century landscape gardeners and horticultural writers. Her own works are much prized for their attractive illustrations." (De Belder 221). - Die Tafeln mit verschiedenen Arrangements von blühenden Gartenpflanzen, in schönem Kolorit. - "It is astonishing how much beauty may be displayed in a little garden. by a tasteful arrangement of annual flowers. (Vorwort). - Blatt I-IV hinter Blatt XVI eingebunden. - Leicht stockfleckig, Name und Blindstempel auf Titel. Innengelenke verstärkt. // With 48 handcoloured lithographed plates. Contemporary marocco, cover and spine richley gilted, inner dentelles, gilt edges, (top and end of spine and hinges somewhat worn, corners slightly bumped, small damage on front cover). - First edition. - Nissen BBI, 1234; Sitwell S. 66; Pritzel 5632; Stafleu-C. 5023; De Belder 221. - Very nice publication about plants, which was published together with three other titles in one series. - "Mrs. Loudon was the wife of John Claudius Loudon, one of the most important nineteenth-century landscape gardeners and horticultural writers. Her own works are much prized for their attractive illustrations." (De Belder 221). - The plates with different arrangements of flowers in luminous colours. "It is astonishing how much beauty may be displayed in a little garden. by a tasteful arrangement of annual flowers. (Vorwort). - Leaves I-IV bound behind leaf XVI. - Slightly foxed, name and blindstamp on title page. Inner hinges reinforced.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 4to. pp. viii, xvi, 272. with half-title. 48 hand-coloured lithographed plates. with tissue guards. modern half morocco (edges of some leaves & plates bit chipped, light foxing to outer leaves). Second Edition. Mrs. Loudon was the wife of landscape gardener and horticultural writer, John Loudon, who designed the Birmingham Botanical Garden. She began to write popular botanical books to help pay off the debts that her husband incurred in publishing his Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum. The plates in the present volume depict various types of nigella, larkspur, poppy, godetia, primrose, clarkia, candytuft, flax, calandrinia, catchfly, dianthus, nasturtium, lupine, sweet pea, vetch, phlox, lobelia, campanula, ageratum, zinnia, browallia, petunia, &c. Sitwell & Blunt, Great Flower Books, p. 66. cfNissen 1234. cfPritzel 5632.