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Lot 222

MAY (A.E. AND WILLIAM)
Choice Flowers: A Collection of Drawings of Favourite Flowers, from the Garden and Conservatory, FIRST EDITION, Ackermann, 1849

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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MAY (A.E. AND WILLIAM)

Choice Flowers: A Collection of Drawings of Favourite Flowers, from the Garden and Conservatory, FIRST EDITION, additional hand-coloured lithographed title, 31 hand-coloured lithographed plates by and after 'Miss May', printed on thin card, a few working loose, publisher's red pictorial morocco gilt, g.e., worn with loss of spine [Great Flower Books, p.118], folio (365 x 260mm.), Ackermann, 1849

Footnotes

Scarce. The subscribers' list mentions 72 names subscribing to 75 copies. William May, who wrote the text, ran the Hope Nurseries, at Bedale in Yorkshire. His sister was responsible for the plates, which depict both single flowers and mixed groups, in the hope that they be useful reference to the botanist "and also instructive to the younger branches of her friends, who may wish to cultivate their taste in the elegant and delightful recreation of drawing" (Preface).

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