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 William Stockdale by Augustus Applegath and Henry Mitton, 1817.
First Edition.

36.5cm x 27cm. [16] pages, 6 plates in two states (hand-coloured and uncoloured, 12 plates in total). Later half leather, papered boards, with original paper label to upper board.

The rare first edition of the second part of the three part treatise on natural history painting by the English artist and author of Pomono Britannica, George Brookshaw (c.1751-1823). Each plate: Apples, Apricots, Cherries, Currants, Pears, Plums; is presented in two states, un-coloured and with hand-colouring, and each is accompanied by 1 or 2 pages of instructive text. This copy complete, but with the plates bound in alphabetical order, rather than the order of the instructive text.

Boards rubbed, the paper label with some rubbing and soiling. Minor to very minor foxing and soiling to interior. 1.5cm closed tear to fore-edge margin of the Cherries text leaf. Very Good Condition.

AU$2,000.00

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