Beschreibung:

Brookshaw (George). Groups of Flowers, drawn and accurately coloured after nature, with full directions for the young artist; designed as a companion to the Treatise on Flower Painting, 2nd edition, London: Thomas McLean, printed by Turner and Hadley, Minerva Press, Cheltenham, 1819, bound with Groups of Fruit, 2nd edition, 1819, and Six Birds, 2nd edition, 1819, 3 parts bound in one, half-titles and advertisements not present, 18 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates after Brookshaw, and 18 uncoloured duplicates of the same plates (6 hand-coloured and 6 uncoloured duplicates to each part, forming a total of 36 plates), each subject with accompanying leaf of text describing the species and giving guidance for drawing and colouring, some scattered, mostly light, spotting and minor offsetting (first title with somewhat heavier spotting), all edges gilt, bookplate of C. Robert Bignold to front pastedown, contemporary gilt-decorated straight-grained red full morocco, rubbed and worn at extremities, some marks and surface tears repaired, old reback, with original gilt decorated spine laid down, folio (sheet size 36 x 26 cm, 14.25 x 10.25 ins) (Quantity: 1) Dunthorne 53, 55 & 54; Oak Spring Flora 91 (Groups of Flowers); Oak Spring Pomona 41 (Groups of Fruit); Nissen IVB 150 (Six Birds). Complete set of Brookshaw's finely illustrated series of natural history drawing manuals in contemporary morocco binding. Oak Spring Pomona 41 "exceedingly rare".