Illustrations and Descriptions of the plants which compose the natural order Camellieæ, and of the varieties of Camellia Japonica, cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain

CHANDLER, Alfred (1804-1896) and William Beattie BOOTH (1804-1874)

Edité par C.Baynes for John & Arthur Arch, London, 1831

(14 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches). 40 hand-coloured plates (36 engraved, 4 lithographed), all heightened with gum arabic, after Chandler, 8 by S.Watts, 22 by Weddell, the others unsigned. Large paper copy. Contemporary half black morocco and green cloth, coloured endpapers, spine with raised bands forming six compartments, lettered gilt in the second compartment Provenance: Alfred Chandler (1804-1896), with a note by Henry Rogers Broughton stating this copy was purchased from Chandler's grandson, Rev. Irwin One of the most attractive of all the works on Camellias, with highly finished plates after the drawings of Alfred Chandler. This "handsome and rare" (Blunt) work was published in three states: the present copy is in the most desirable of the three, with the "very fine large plates, beautifully coloured with opaque pigments" (Dunthorne). The work was issued with the plates in three states: uncoloured, coloured and coloured and highly finished. All were from Alfred Chandler's original drawings, most of which were based on specimens from the collection of his father who was owner and proprietor of a nursery at Vauxhall. "The name Camellia was given by Linnaeus in honor of George Joseph Camellus or Kamel, a Moravian Jesuit who traveled in Asia and wrote an account of the plants of the Philippine Island, Luzon, which is included in the third volume of John Ray's Historia Plantarum (1704) . Most of the cultivated forms are horticultural products of C. Japonica, a native of China and Japan, which was introduced into Europe by Lord Petre in 1739. The wild plant has red flowers, recalling those of the wild rose, but most of the cultivated forms are double" (Encyclopaedia Britannica). The present work includes plates and descriptive text (including details of the plant's first appearance in Great Britain, a physical description and some details of its cultivation and propagation) of 40 species or varieties. Camellia Japonica figures prominently, with plates of the species, together with 16 varieties bred from the species by the Chinese and 19 English-bred varieties. In addition, plates and descriptions of the Maliflora, Oleifera, Reticulata and Sasanqua are also included. The work ends with 8pp. on the Propagation and Culture of the plants. Dunthorne 77; Great Flower Books (1990) p.80; Nissen BBI 209; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 651. N° de réf. du vendeur 42422

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Titre : Illustrations and Descriptions of the plants...
Éditeur : C.Baynes for John & Arthur Arch, London
Date d'édition : 1831
Reliure : Folio