[NATURAL HISTORY]. LOUDON, Jane Webb (1807-1858). The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants [and] Ornamental Greenhouse Plants. London: William Smith, 1841, 1848.

2 volumes, small 4to. Half-titles; 100 hand-colored lithographed plates by Day & Haghe after Loudon (58 and 42 respectively). (Occasional spotting.) Contemporary half calf gilt, all edges gilt, G. Moxon binder's ticket (spine panel detached in first volume and laid in, splitting to joints, fore-corners rubbed). Provenance: M.A. Moorhouse (early ownership signature on title-page).

FIRST EDITIONS. Nissen BBI 1235, 1236; Great Flower Books, p.115.

Property from the Estate of Peter Fortsas