£900
Binding - Botany - Edwards (Sydenham), The Botanical Register: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants, Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment, Volumes I to V, Printed for James Ridgway, Piccadilly, London 1815 - 1819, each illustrated with full-page and some fold-out hand-coloured engravings of specimens, occasional monochrome line engraved vignettes accompanying text, full contemporary green morocco gilt, the covers with a blind quadruple-fillet within a gilt double-fillet and paterae spandrels, the whole enclosed in a further blind quadruple-fillet, the spines gilt lettered and tooled with three swags of graduating scrolling leafy foliage in further fillet frames, gilt foliate corners and dentelles, all edges gilt, contemporary canary yellow endpapers, dated Plain Armorial bookplates to each recto pastedown: Charles Thoroton, 1852, tall 8vo, [5]
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