FELTON, S. (Samuel, active 1780-1792)

[Grangerized] On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening with Biographical Notices [Francis Henry Cripps-Day's copy]

London: Published by Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange; and Joseph Onwhyn, Catharine Street, Strand, 1830. Three-Quarter Calf. Scarce extra-illustrated copy of this work on English writers on gardening and landscape design (in effect, a bibliography). Demy 8vo (224 x 134mm): xxxviii [2],221,[1]pp. Small, trimmed eighteenth-century portrait engravings, after Hollar, of John Tradescant the Elder and John Tradescant the Younger tipped in. Bound by Sizer (stamp to front paste-down) in three-quarter green-dyed calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine in six compartments divided by raised bands, title direct in gilt, fore- and bottom edges uncut, Prussian blue end papers. Provenance: Francis Henry Cripps-Day (gilt armorial stamp to bottom of spine), early twentieth-century historian of arms and armor; Charles A. Ward (engraved armorial book plate to front paste-down). For the portraits of the Tradescants, see New Hollstein (German) 1430 and 1431. Spine faded to brown, else an excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Near Fine+. Item #BB2475

Second Edition, "with considerable additions." According to specialist bookseller Charles Wood, "a mine of information," with biographical sketches of, among many others, Gabriel Plattes, John Beale, John Rea, Leonard Meager, Henry Wise, Steven Switzer, Richard Bradley, John Evelyn, George Mason, William Marshall, Gervaise Markham, and William Kent. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

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