Robert Sayer

The Florist, containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos’d in their succession of blooming. London: I. Smith and R. Sayer, c.1760

4to (215 x 140mm.), engraved pictorial title, coloured by hand, 60 hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary calf, extremities rubbed and slightly worn

"One of the earliest of the drawing a🦋nd colouring books, which was copied by Bowles, but with the same subjects re-engraved on new plates", according to Dunthorne.

LITERATURE:

ESTC T470741; Henrey, 707–709 (slightly different issues); Nissen BBI 1734; Dunthorne 272; Great Flower Books, p. 75