The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing : to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for Robt. Sayer & Jno. Bennett, no. 53 Fleet Street, Carn. Bowles, no. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, Robt. Wilkinson, no. 58 Cornhill, [between 1770 and 1784?]
Physical Description:
16 pages, [1], 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts QK98.2 F56 1770 Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title page is engraved.Robert Sayer & John Bennett worked as partners from 1770 to 1784. See: Skelton, R.A. Decorative printed maps of the 15th to 18th centuries.Below imprint: Price 6s. & colour'd 1£. 1s. 0d.Text and plates were later copied and published under the title 'Bowles's florist'. Cf. Henrey.Henrey, B. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800, 709BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. Bound in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards.
Subject Terms:
Flowers in art -- Early works to 1800. | Botanical illustration -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Drawing -- Technique. | Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Watercolor painting -- Technique. | Watercolor painting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.