The plates are copper engravings, were engraved by Robert Hancock (1730–1817), and arehand-colored in this copy. Hancock is remembered as an engraver for Worcester Porcelain Works where his engraving were integral to the firm's transfer printed patterns, and later for Stratfordshire Potteries. Later still, he was a noted mezzotint artist.
ESTC T83981; Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature, 1092; Rohde, Old English herbals, 223. Not in Nissen, Botanische Buchillustration; not in Johnston, Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections. Contemporary quarter calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, joints reinforced and boards fittingly recovered with tan marbled paper; spine with leather cracked and extremities chipped. Without the final three leaves of advertisements for books A clean copy with the watercolors bright, fresh looking, and precisely applied. (34645)
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