[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 1829 Hand-Colored Flowers & Fruit: 71 plates

[Charles Agvent]

 From our new catalog:

McINTOSH, Charles. FLORA AND POMONA; OR THE BRITISH FRUIT AND FLOWER 
GARDEN; CONTAINING DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MOST VALUABLE AND INTERESTING 
FLOWERS AND FRUITS, CULTIVATED IN THE GARDENS OF GREAT BRITAIN, WITH 
FIGURES DRAWN AND COLOURED FROM NATURE. ACCOMPANIED BY A CONSISE 
ANALYSIS OF THEIR BOTANICAL AND POMONOLOGICAL CHARACTER, THEIR NATURE 
AND MODE OF CULTURE, INCLUDING A DEFINITION OF THE TECHNICAL TERMS USED 
IN THE SCIENCE OF BOTANY, WITH FAMILIAR INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DRAWING AND 
COLOURING OF THE FRUITS AND FLOWERS. London: Thomas Kelly, 1829. First 
Edition. Octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/2") in contemporary tree calf leather with 
gilt rules and gilt-decorated spine with a gilt-lettered red morocco 
spine label. Illustrated with 71 lovely hand-colored engraved plates, 
one of which is folding. The plates, 36 of fruit and 35 of flowers, were 
drawn by Edwin Dalton Smith and engraved by S. Watts and F. W. Smith. E. 
D. Smith was well known as "a more considerable artist of small-scale 
work..."(Blunt & Stern - ART OF BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION). Smith also did 
drawings for Maund's BOTANIC GARDEN, as well as other works. His 
excellent artistic skill is readily evident on all the plates in this 
work by MacIntosh. Of particular note are the fruit plates, 12 of which 
are of different apples. We found only two complete copies of this title 
at auction in the last 40 years. Light, scattered foxing to the text, 
the plates clean and bright with tissue guards present. Front joint with 
some splitting but very tight. Near Fine and scarce.
Nissen BBI 1256. (#017990)        $6,000.00

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