The Society of Gardeners

The Society of Gardeners
Catalogus Plantarum… A Catalogue of Trees, Shrubs, Plants, and Flowers, both Exotic and Domestic, which are propagated for sale, in the Gardens near London, London: Society of Gardeners, 1730.
First edition, part one only (all issued), 2 engraved head-pieces, engraved frontispiece by Henry Fletcher, 21 plates after Jacob van Huysum, comprising: 14 hand-coloured copper-engravings and 7 hand-finished coloured mezzotints, plates 8, 13, 17 and 18 with outer margins shaved, not affecting image, plates 5–8 and 20 with contemporary pencil annotations, plate 9 with light waterstain to upper margin, contemporary calf-backed boards with later paper overlay, joints cracked, extremities of spine chipped with loss, folio

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

Literature:
Dunthorne 119; Great Flower Books, p. 57; Hunt 485; Nissen BBI 2230