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Fischer Fine Art London England: October 5 to November 9 1989ABAA

Elisabeth Frink: Recent Sculpture and Drawings

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDONABAA

Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London . With: Transactions . Second Series

184838150London: W. Bulmer & Co. and others 1848. Together 10 volumes First Series: vols. I-VII; Second Series: vols. I-III all published 4to. Seven engraved titles 174 engraved plates 92 hand-coloured; 10 folding after Hooker Withers Drake Barbara Cotton C.J. Robertson Lady Broughton and others engraved by W. Say W. Clark and others numerous illustrations. A few plates trimmed close in the first series as usual. First series: Early tree calf covers bordered in gilt spine gilt with morocco lettering piece marbled endpapers and edges. Second Series: Early half calf and marbled paper covered boards. Provenance: Howe Peter Browne 2nd Marquess of Sligo armorial stamp on spines of first series; William Willoughby Cole 3rd Earl of Enniskillen armorial bookplate in second series A rare complete run of the most important British pomological and botanical journal of its day and a showcase for the talents of some of the greatest botanical artists working in Britain at the time. The Horticultural Society of London was founded by Sir Joseph Banks John Wedgwood and others in 1804 and become The Royal Horticultural Society in 1861. The Transactions the leading horticultural journal of its time contains valuable contributions on fruits and vegetables particularly peaches strawberries apricots cherries and gooseberries by T. A. Knight George Lindley James Barnet and Robert Thompson and others. William Hooker no relation to Sir William served as botanical artist to the Horticultural Society now the Royal Horticultural Society from 1812 until he retired in 1820. The present work includes a good selection of plates taken from his fruit paintings which according to Blunt and Stearn reveal him to have been "one of the greatest pomological artists of all time" The Art of Botanical Illustration p. 233. There are also some excellent examples of the work of Sarah Drake including a particularly fine folding plate of the orchid Cattleya guttata and Augusta Withers the luminous quality of the fruit in the Ickworth Imperatrice Plum plate is remarkable who combined their talents to such memorable effect in James Bateman's Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala London: 1837-1843 As usual this set a mixed edition: vols. 1-2 third edition; vol. 3 second edition; vols. 4-7 and second series vols 1-3 first edition. Dunthorne 142; Great Flower Books 1990 p. 160; Nissen BBI 2387. W. Bulmer & Co. [and others] unknown books

Donald Heald Rare Books · États-Unis17 500,00 $US≈ 14 806,75 €

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDONABAA

TRANSACTIONS OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. VOLUME 2 ONLY

1818879851818. Hooker William. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. TRANSACTIONS OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. VOLUME 2. London: Printed by W. Bulmer & Co. Cleveland Row; Sold by J. Hatchard Picadilly 1815. Second edition. Engraved title-page and 32 plates of which three are folding. 31 plates are engraved and one is a b&w lithograph. Of the engraved plates 16 are color plates a combination of stipple engraving with hand coloring mostly of fruit but for "Monopsis Conspicua" "The Large Vegetable Marrow" and a beautiful folding plate of "The Double-Sweet-scented Chinese Peony." Uncolored plates are mostly of plans and structures but for a couple of plants. Many of the b&w plates have the engravers' and artists' names while only one of the color plates does "Monopsis Conspicua" printed and engraved by W. Hooker after R. A. Salisbury. However according to Gordon Dunthorne William Hooker no relation to Sir William did the majority of the plates in the first five volumes "including many fine fruit plates which outnumber those of flowers . the fruit prints in particular comparing with the best of Hooker's work." Quarto. 28 x 21.5 cm. 2 XXIV VIII 186 185-186 187-369 372-410 10 28 pp. Disbound: Bookblock is sound with old marbled boards detached yet present but lacking the ffep. and backstrip. Some light foxing to engraved title-page and a few of the other b&w plates with offsetting to facing text pages; otherwise the plates and text are quite clean. Ex library with minimal markings only a cancelled bookplate on front pastedown and a blind embossed seal on p. 1 of text and none to plates. A complete copy in very good condition that needs to be rebound. Published between 1807 and 1848 the Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London are esteemed for the very high standard of their production especially in their plates and for their interesting and useful content. References: Dunthorne FLOWER AND FRUIT PRINTS #142; Sitwell GREAT FLOWER BOOKS pp. 58 & 160. unknown books

Boston Book Company · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

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