1805 Lychnis, Moneywort, rare Syd. Edwards, quarto, Practical Gardening, botany

F. Sansom after Sydenham Edwards 

26.8 x 20.8 cm

Fine cream watermarked paper dated ‘1805’.

Issued in: [DICKSON, R.W.] 'Alexander McDONALD' (fl. 1799-1815). A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening. London: R. Taylor and Co. for George Kearsley, [1805]-1807.

FIRST APPEARANCE OF EDWARDS' PLATES which were subsequently re-issued as The New Botanic Garden and The New Flora Britannica (both London, 1812). BM(NH) III, p.1207; Cleveland Collections 718; Dunthorne 106; Great Flower Books p.115; Nissen BBI 479.

Minor even age toning.