Sweet's Florist's Guide with colored plates

Title: The Florist's Guide and Cultivator's Directory; Containing coloured figures of the choicest flowers cultivated by florists; including ranunculus, carnations, picotees, pinks, georginas, polyanthus, auriculas, hyacinths, and tulips, with their descriptions and an account of the most approved methods of culture
Author: Sweet, Robert
Description: 2 volumes. With 200 hand-colored copper-engraved plates with accompanying letterpress, engraved by S. Watts from drawings by E.D. Smith; extra-illustrated with 72 hand-colored copper-engraved plates by S. Watts after E.D. Smith, from Vol. V of Sweet's Geraniceae. 9¼x5¾, period half calf & marbled boards, spines tooled in gilt & blind, raised bands, morocco lettering pieces. First Edition. With a striking array of Tulips and other flowers. The 72 plates added from the fifth volume of Sweet's Geranicae are bound in before the first 36 plates of each volume; the caption from the letterpress descriptions to each of the geraniceae plates has been clipped and mounted on the plate. Nissen 1925, Pritzel 908
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Place Published: London
Publisher Name: J. Ridgway
Date Published: 1827-1832

Just a little shelf wear, each with a bookplate covering an earlier bookplate, near fine with just a touch of internal aging.