Priscilla Bury | A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, London, 1831, modern red half morocco
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November 29, 03:25 PM GTNN
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Priscilla Bury
A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, belonging to the natural orders amaryllidae and liliacae. London, 1831
FIRST EDITION, large folio (628 x 476mm.), engraved title, list of subscribers, 51 hand-coloured engraved plates by Robert Havell after Mrs Bury, modern red half morocco, top edge gilt, others uncut, two plates tightly bound, a few text leaves slightly creased, light spotting to preliminary leaves, light offsetting
A MONUMENTAL FLOWER BOOK BY THE ACCOMPLISHED FEMALE BOTANIST.
One of the greatest botanical publications of its t.mes , with plates engraved and printed by Robert Havell, at the same t.mes as he was publishing Audubon's Birds of America. Bury's work was conceived as a companion to William Roscoe's Monandrian Plants. Priscilla Bury (1799-1872), was the daughter of Edward Dean Falkner (1750-1825), a wealthy Liverpool trader, who had been high sheriff of Lancashire in 1788, and his wife, Bridgett Tarleton (d. 1819), only daughter of John Tarleton a merchant and shipowner. She lived at Fairfield, two miles east of Liverpool, where she painted plants raised in the greenhouses there. John Tarleton was the brother of Colonel Tarleton (1754-1833), whose portrait by Reynolds resides in the National Gallery. Audubon was one of the subscribers to this large folio.
LITERATURE:
Dunthorne 71; Great Flower Books, p.53; Nissen BBI 306; Stafleu TL2 937
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