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Botany.- Edwards (John) A Select Collection of One Hundred Plates; consisting of the most beautiful Exotic and British Flowers, first edition, second issue, 100 attractively hand-coloured plates, Henry Rogers Broughton bookplate, contemporary tree calf, rebacked preserving original gilt backstrip with red morocco label, recornered, [ESTC T83982; Henrey 676; Hunt 645; Nissen BBI 578], folio, S.Hooper, 1775. ⁂ A lovely copy of one of the most attractive English flower books. "A fine work with many beautiful plates." (Dunthorne 104). Edwards not only made the drawings for this work, but also etched and engraved the majority of the plates.