Lot 142: HENDERSON, Peter Charles (fl.1791-1829).The Seasons, or Flower-Garden: being a selection of the most beautiful flowers that blossom at the Four Seasons of the Year. London: R. Ackermann, 1806.

HENDERSON, Peter Charles (fl.1791-1829). The Seasons, or Flower-Garden: being a selection of the most beautiful flowers that blossom at the Four Seasons of the Year. London: R. Ackermann, 1806. 2° (340 x 276 mm). Hand-colored engraved frontispiece and 24 plates (some minor spotting not affecting the images). Later half leather (corners bumped, some light wear, library mark in pen on foot of spine). FIRST EDITION, in which Henderson provides instructions for drawing and painting flowers, which had of late become a fashionable 19th-century form of amusement. Henderson illustrates the four seasons using six different flowers for each quarter of the year. Bound with A Treatise or Instructions for drawing and painting Flowers with general observations on the Art, as in the Dunthorne copy. Nissen calls for 2 frontispieces, but both Cleveland Collections and Great Flower Books call for only one frontispiece. Cleveland Collections 711 (GC copy this copy); Dunthorne 126; Nissen BBI 848; Sitwell Great Flower Books, p.59.