Floral Illustrations of the Seasons: Consisting of Drawings from Nature of some of the Most Beautiful, Hardy and Rare Herbaceous Plants cultivated in the Flower Garden, carefully arranged according to their Seasons of Flowering + 13 numbers are in

+ 13 numbers are in the publisher’s printed wrappers

this is especially true for the volume on the ‘Birds of New Zealand’ with exquisitely detailed lithographed plates

The selected images were the most attractive and easily cultivated orchidaceous plants

over original marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers

Floral Illustrations of the Seasons: Consisting of Drawings from Nature of some of the Most Beautiful, Hardy and Rare Herbaceous Plants cultivated in the Flower Garden, carefully arranged according to their Seasons of Flowering + 13 numbers are inPp. (vi), 55 hand colored copper engraved and aquatint plates by Havell after Margaret Roscoe's drawings on wove paper with J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermarks dated 1828, interleaved with letterpress descriptions facing each color plate, section titles (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter). Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in three quarter dark green morocco over pale green cloth boards, spine with five raised bands, gilt lettered in three