Lot 164: HOOKER, WILLIAM JACKSON

Exotic Flora, Containing Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Otherwise Interesting Exotic Plants. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1823?1827

3 volumes, 8vo (9 3/8 x 5 3/4 in.; 237 x 146 mm). 233 handcolored engraved plates (of which 46 double-page and 18 folding), indices in each volume; (vol. 1): very minor offsetting of a few plates to text; (vol. 2): text offsetting (occasionally strong) to about 46 plates, text to plate 118 stained; (vol. 3): plates 178?180 and text discolored and foxed, some light offsetting of plates to text, text to plate 189 spotted, some faint text offsetting to plates toward the end. Nineteenth-century polished oxblood calf by Carss of Glasgow (binder's ticket in vol. 1), panelled gilt with foliated cornerpieces, spines richly gilt in 6 compartments (2 reserved for green morocco lettering and numbering pieces), marbled endpapers and edges; joints rubbed, upper hinge starting and long scratch on lower cover of vol. 2, extremities of vol. 3 faded to brown.

Dunthorne 140; Great Flower Books, p. 103; Nissen BBI 920; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 2993

Mungo N. Campbell (armorial bookplate in vols. I?II)

First edition. The plates were engraved after fine drawings by Hooker, R. K. Greville, L. Guilding, J. Lindley, and others.