Botany.- Sayer (Robert) The Florist, first edition, [1760].

Botany.- Sayer (Robert, publisher) The Florist, Containing Sixty Plates of the most beautiful Flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blooming, first edition, 57 (of 60) engraved plates, plates 1-24 are hand-coloured, plates 2, 5, and 10 lacking, light foxing and browning, small tear and some repair to title, contemporary half calf, rubbed and scuffed, joints cracked and weak, 4to, printed for Robert Sayer, [1760]. *** "One of the earliest of the drawing and colouring books, which was copied by Bowles, but with the same subjects re-engraved on new plates", according to Dunthorne.

Estimate:£1,000

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