Samuel Curtis (1779-1860)

Samuel Curtis (1779-1860)
A Monograph of the Genus Camellia… from original drawings by Clara Maria Pope, London: J. and A. Arch, 1819.
First edition, engraved title page and dedication leaf, 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates, heightened with gum arabic, engraved by Weddell after Clara Maria Pope, letterpress text, light browning, nineteenth-century half calf, joints weakened, extremities bumped, folio

Provenance:
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven

Literature:
Dunthorne 85; Great Flower Books p. 54; Nissen BBI 437

A FINE AND EARLY WORK ON THE GENUS CAMELLIA.

Clara Maria Pope (c.1767–1838) was a London born painter and botanical artist. She contributed to The Botanical Magazine, The Beauties of Flora and was commissioned by Sir John Soane for Shakespeare’s Flowers (c. 1835, Soane Collection P319). Henry Hopkins Weddell (1794–1838), his brother Edward Smith Weddell (1796–1858) were botanical engravers of some significance in the early nineteenth century.

This copy also contains the engraved title and a letterpress leaf from Samuel Curtis, The Beauties of Flora, 1820.