Groups of fruit, accurately drawn and coloured after nature, with full directions for the young artist: designed as a companion to the treatises on flowers and birds.

London, for W. Stockdale by A. Applegath and H. Mitton, 1817

Hammer price: € 460

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Lot description

Folio: 12 pl. (some min. faint spotting).

Mod. mottled red tinted half calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands (covers rubbed).

First edition of this fine set of natural history plates which is rarely on the market. Ill. with 6 engraved plates of apples, apricots, cherries, currants, pears and plums, each in two states: hand-coloured and uncoloured. Brookshaw (c. 1751-1823) was a notable English painter and illustrator.
Ref. Oak Spring Pomona 41.