EDWARDS, Sydenham (1768-1819) – [DICKSON, R. W.] The New Botanic Garden, illustrated with one hundred and thirty-three plants…from drawings by Sydenham Edwards. London: T. Bensley for John Stockdale, 1812.

Sydenham Edwards' fine plateswere first published in Dickson's A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardeningin 1807, and then republished by Stockdale in 1812 both under the present title and as The New Flora Britannica. See Cleveland Collections 718; Dunthorne 107; Great Flower Books (1990) p. 93; Nissen BBI 480.

Two volumes, quarto (295 x 224mm). Half-titles. 61 hand-colored engraved plates by F. Sansom after Edwards, numbered 1-60 and 19*, some with tissue guards (first few leaves short, one leaf with missing blank corner, some soiling at edges). Contemporary straight-grained red morocco gilt (wear at extremities with some scuffs to boards). Provenance: Henry A. Couper (armorial bookplate with motto “tuum est”).