Pp. 503, 61 fine hand-colored plates engraved by Sansom after Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819). Contemporary straight-grained light brown morocco, covers with elaborate outer border tooled in gilt and blind-stamped, spine in five compartments with wide semi-raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others with overall repeated decorations in gilt and blind-stamping, gilt turn-ins, all pages edges in gilt, 4to. The two volumes here are bound in one large volume as is often the case with this treatise. This is the best published collection of Edward’s work who was one of the greatest English botanical artists of the period. The plates from the “The New Flora Britannica” were first published by R. W. Dickson under the pseudonym Alexander McDonald in “A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening” (1807). However, the presentation of these plates in “The New Flora Britannica” is far superior due to the much more brilliant coloration and the fact that a higher quality paper stock was used to print the plates. See also Dunthorne 107 and Nissen BBI, 479.