Lot 126 , Harrison, Joseph. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists' Magazine. Vols. I, IV–VI, 1833, 1836–1838. Four volumes, with 53 hand-coloured botanical plates.

Harrison, Joseph. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists' Magazine. Vols. I, IV–VI, 1833, 1836–1838. Four volumes, with 53 hand-coloured botanical plates. Harrison, Joseph. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists' Magazine. London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co. / Whittaker & Co., 1833, 1836–1838. Vols. I, IV, V and VI only, four volumes from the series. The periodical was published in 27 volumes from 1833 to 1859.

8vo. Uniformly bound in half black leather over marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments and lettered in gilt, Vol. I titled “Floricultural Cabinet”, Vols. IV–VI abbreviated “Floricultu Cabinet”, with respective volume numbers; all edges gilt.

Comprising: Vol. I, March–December 1833, pp. iv, 1–260, with 14 hand-coloured botanical plates including frontispiece, List of Engravings on p. 248; Vol. IV, January–December 1836, pp. 1–308, with 14 hand-coloured botanical plates including frontispiece, list of plants figured on p. [299]; Vol. V, January–December 1837, pp. ii, 1–308, with 13 hand-coloured botanical plates including frontispiece, list of plants figured on p. [299]; Vol. VI, January–December 1838, pp. ii, 1–308, with 12 hand-coloured botanical plates including frontispiece, two folding, Index to plates figured on p. [301].

Together 53 hand-coloured botanical plates, including the frontispieces and two folding plates, with further black-and-white illustrations in the text. Occasional pencil corrections to printed plate references.
£60-80

Condition:
Bindings with general rubbing, scuffing and wear, particularly to the corners, edges and joints. Contents with intermittent spotting, foxing and surface marks throughout; hand-coloured plates generally clean and retaining good colour. All four volumes securely bound. Vols. II and III not present in this group.