The florist
Subtitle: containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing : to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art
Contributors: Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm)
Published: 1770
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Drawing books; Early works to 1800; Study and teaching; Specimens; Painting; Drawing; Botanical illustration
Notes: Title page is engraved and hand colored.

The engravings are hand colored.

Robert Sayer & John Bennett worked as partners from 1770 to 1784. See: Skelton, R.A. Decorative printed maps of the 15th to 18th centuries.

Below imprint: Price 6s. & colour'd 1£. 1s. 0d.

Text and plates were later copied and published under the title 'Bowles's florist'. Cf. Henrey.

Henrey, B. British botanical & horticultural literature before 1800, 709

Gift of Tania Norris.

Binding: marbled paper over boards; quarter-bound in tan morocco; gilt label on spine.