The Flower Garden Display'd, in Above Four Hundred Curious Representations of the Most Beautiful Flowers.

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• ARTIST: Robert Furber

• PUBLISHER: London: Printed for J. Hazard; R. Montagu; W. Bickerton; R. Chandler; and Caesar Ward,

• MEDIUM: Engravings hand colored,

  DATE: 1734.

• EDITION SIZE: Plate size 9 x 5 3/4" (22.9 x 14.6 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: The first quarto format edition of Robert Furber's "Twelve Months of Flowers".<br><br> The title continues with:<br> Regularly dispos'd in the respective Months of their Blossom, Curiously Engrav'd on Copper-Plates, From the Designs of Mr. Furber, and Others, and Coloured to the Life. With the Description and History of each Plant, and the Method of their Culture; whether in Stoves, Green-Houses, Hot Beds, Glass-Cases, Open Borders, or against Walls. Very Useful, Not only for the Curious in Gardening, but the Prints likewise for Painters, Carvers, Japaners, &c. also for the Ladies, at Patterns for Working, and Painting in Water-Colours, or Furniture for the Closet.<br><br> Robert Furber (1674–1756) was a British horticulturist and author, best known for producing the Twelve Months of Flowers, first seed catalog in England. This catalog featured twelve detailed engravings of seasonal plants in bloom. Peter Smith engraved each from paintings by Pieter Casteels. Each plant was numbered, with a list of the corresponding species names provided. The text provides additional information for each plant. More than 400 different species of plants were described.<br><br> Furber was a member of the "English Society of Gardners," a group formed in 1724 to protect the reputations of plant growers by mutually agreeing to names for newly discovered plants. Furber contributed to the group's work, including collaborating on a book documenting the plants discovered and named by the group.

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: In good condition, with wider margins than usual, and featuring original hand coloring. Framed in a modern but period style, black receding molding with gold sanded spandrel.

• REFERENCE: Brunet 4954; Dunthorne 114; Great Flower Books, pp.30-31; Henrey 721; Hunt 487; Nissen BBI 677.

• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Natural History - Botanicals , Other Flowers