[Rarebooks] FS: The first 8 volumes of CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, 1792-94, with 286 handcolored plates

[Charles Agvent]

CURTIS'S  BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.... Volumes 1 - 8. London: W.  Curtis
1792-1794.  First Edition. Octavo (5-3/4" x 9-1/4") bound in  original
tree  calf  with  contrasting morocco spine labels.  The  first  eight
volumes,  bound  in  four,  of this popular  and  important  botanical
magazine,    the  first  and  the   greatest  of  many   horticultural
periodicals.  Illustrated  with  286 (of  288)  stunning  hand-colored
botanical  plates, with plate 120 uncolored and lacking only plate 69,
the Moss Rose. The coloring is vivid and the paper, for the most part,
is  clean  and bright. Contemporary bookplate of the Honorable  Thomas
Knox  in  each volume with his signature on four of the  title  pages.
Spines  are a bit dry, with some rubbing and splitting to the  joints,
but  all  covers are tight, clean, and sound. Two spine labels on  one
volume  are  chipped.  Bindings Very Good; plates  clean  and  bright.
                                                             $10,000.00

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