January

by Robert - After Pieter Casteels Furber, publisher

$5,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

A fine example of this celebrated image from Furber's renowned series titled Twelve Months of Flowers , here with excellent contemporary hand colouring From the first edition of a celebrated flower catalogue published by Robert Furber, a nurseryman from Kensington, then on the outskirts of London. Twelve Months of Flowers presented almost 400 different flowering species, grouped according to the month in which they flower. Reflecting in style the grand manner of the Baroque

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