Loudon, Mrs. The Ladies’ Companion to the Flower-Garden. Being an Alphabetical Arrangement of All the Ornamental Plants usually grown in Gardens and Shrubberies; with full directions for their culture. 6th. Ed. Pub. Bradbury & Evans. 1853
pp.viii, 355 with hand-coloured frontispiece and 69 b/w. figs. Small 8vo. Hardback. AEG. Small bookseller’s blind stamp to ffep. Very occ. light spotting internally o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards with blind decoration and decorative gilt lettering in thor. vg. condition.
Jane Loudon, born at the dawn of the 19th century, would come to have three major, bizarrely contrasting, achievements in her life. At age 20, she would become the author of the first fictional book on Mummies, starting a vast literary genre that has survived and prospered to the present day. A generation later, she would be responsible for introducing the pastime of gardening to the middle classes, with the publication of the first popular gardening manuals. And finally, she transformed herself yet again into a self-taught, acclaimed botanical artist.
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