The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing. To which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.

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The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing. To which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[London] : Sold by I. Smith, at Hogarth's Head, Cheapside, London, [1760?]

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2 unnumbered pages, 61-76 pages, 60 leaves of plates : illustrations (engr.) ; 22 cm (4to)

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Engraved title page signed C. Phillips.
Plates are from Robert Sayer's edition as described in Dunthorne, 272.
Imprint not described in Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit.; nor in Dunthorne.

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Dunthorne, G. Flower and fruit prints, 272

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