The flower-garden display'd, in above four hundred curious representations of the most beautiful flowers; regularly dispos'd in the respective months of their blossom, curiously engrav'd on copper-plates fom [sic] the designs of Mr. Furber, and others, and coloured to the life. With the description and history of each plant, and the method of their culture; whether in stoves, green-houses, hot beds, glass-cases, open borders, or against walls. Very useful, not only for the curious in gardening, but the prints likewise for painters, carvers, japaners, &c. also for the ladies, as patterns for working, and painting in water-colours, or furniture for the closet. The second edition. To which is added, A flower-garden for gentlemen and ladies: being the art of raising flowers without any trouble, to blow in full perfection in the depth of winter, in a bed-chamber, closet, or dining-room. Also, the method of raising salleting, cucumbers, melons, &c. at any time in the year. As it is now practised by Sir Thomas More, Bart.
Richard Bradley (1688-1732)
Category
Books
Date
1734
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3009384
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 139, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 4to. Running number: 5831. Plates are hand-coloured. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price in pencil on front fly-leaf: "10-6". Binding: eighteenth-century full mottled calf; blind roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title label on spine. Red burnished edges.
Makers and roles
Richard Bradley (1688-1732), author Robert Furber (1674-1756), author Pieter Casteels (Antwerp 1684 - Richmond 1749) , original artist James Smith (fl.1733-1750s), engraver (printmaker)