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SWEET, Robert. The British Flower Garden, (Series the Second,) containing Coloured Figures & Descriptions of the most Ornamental and Curious Hardy Flowering Plants, London: James Ridgway & Sons, 1831-1838. 4 volumes (Second Series only), large 8 (241 x 154mm.), 412 hand-coloured engraved plates after E. D. Smith and others (some light offsetting, a little staining mainly to margins), 19th-century half morocco, spines gilt in compartments (extremities lightly rubbed), g.e. FIRST EDITION. Great Flower Books p.77; Nissen BBI 1923

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SWEET, Robert. The British Flower Garden, (Series the Second,) containing Coloured Figures & Descriptions of the most Ornamental and Curious Hardy Flowering Plants, London: James Ridgway & Sons, 1831-1838. 4 volumes (Second Series only), large 8 (241 x 154mm.), 412 hand-coloured engraved plates after E. D. Smith and others (some light offsetting, a little staining mainly to margins), 19th-century half morocco, spines gilt in compartments (extremities lightly rubbed), g.e. FIRST EDITION. Great Flower Books p.77; Nissen BBI 1923

This set forms an extensive and valuable record of the flowers then under cultivation in England. Sweet's nursery was at Cook's Ground, Chelsea.