The FloristÕs Manual; or, Hints for the Construction of a Gay Flower Garden.

[ Jacson, or Jackson, Maria Elizabetha.]

Edité par London: Henry Colburn, 1827.

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Maria Elizabetha Jacson (1755 Ð 1829) was a botanical writer and the daughter of a clergyman who owned land in Derbyshire and Cheshire. Her family had connections to Enlightenment culture in the midlands through Erasmus Darwin and her cousin, Sir Brooke Boothby. She also knew Maria Edgeworth, who described Jacson as a Ògay garden ladyÓ and was undoubtedly an influence on JacsonÕs work. Jackson took an interest in botany from a young age, but did not publish her first book, the childrenÕs educational volume Botanical Dialogues (1797), until she was in her forties. She later published Botanical Lectures (1804) and Sketches of the Physiology of Vegetable Life (1811) for an adult audience, the former book being an introduction to the translation ofÊLinnaeusÕsÊSystem of VegetablesÊ(1783) byÊErasmus Darwin. The FloristÕs Manual was her most popular and influential work. Twelvemo. [2, ads], vii, 136 pp. With six hand-colored aquatint plates, including large folding frontispiece (11 x 7 Ó). PublisherÕs rose-colored boards. Expertly rebacked with printed paper spine label. Wear to corners. A very good, unusually bright and wide copy. Third edition, enlarged, of this gardening guidebook that was among the first of its kind written for women by a woman. The second and third editions are significantly expanded from the first edition (1816), which is about half as many pages and contains only two plates. Abbey Life 17. Henry 872.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The FloristÕs Manual; or, Hints for the Construction of a Gay Flower Garden.
• Éditeur: London: Henry Colburn, 1827.
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale