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MAUND, Banjamin (1790-1864, editor). The Botanic

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London: Simpkin and Marshall, Sherwood and Co., 1825-1836-[n.d.]. Volumes I-VIII (all published), square 8vo (224 x 175 mm). Engraved addiional titles, 768 fine hand-colored engraved plates, (plates 600 and 633 in vol. VII cut round and mounted, as issued). 20th-century dark green morocco spine (tooled in gilt) backing onto contemporary dark green cloth-covered boards, dark grey/green coated endpapers, t.e.g. Condition: light spotting to first and last few leaves, and occasionally elsewhere, some additional titles also showing some dampstaining; rebacked. Provenance: Lynn Abbott Trust. a fine complete set of the very rare so-called 'special crown edition' of maund's well-known work. In this edition each plate is given a separate page, as opposed to the first edition where the engravings are printed four to a page. Surrounding each hand-colored engraving is a decorative uncolored engraved border with a crown above (perhaps a visual pun on the edition and the paper size), and numbered below. The hand-colouring in this edition is clearly more carefully done than in the normal edition, and some of the plates are heightened with gum arabic. Benjamin Maund was a botanist, florist, some-time bookseller, chemist, and publisher, and an enthusiastic gardener, active until the early 1850s in Worcestershire. This edition not in Stafleu & Cowan or Nissen. (8)(8)

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