Lot 128
Paxton, Joseph
Paxton's Magazine of Botany
Auction: 16 June 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
London: Orr and Smith, 1834-8. First edition. large 8vo, volumes 1-5 (of 16), contemporary half calf with marbled boards, 224 hand-coloured engraved plates (vol. 1: 42; vol. 2: 43 + 4 extra plates from vol. 3; vol. 3: 43; vol. 4: 43; vol. 5: 49, lacking folded plate facing p. 5 Cattleya Crispa) some folding, by F. W. Smith, S. Holden, C. J. Fleming, and O. Jewitt, mainly depicting flowers but also a few plates of flower beds and garden ornaments, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout the text, some occasional spotting, some offsetting of colour plates on adjacent text pages, some folded plates creased and with minor tears, one plate with linen repair, spines and corner tips worn (5)
Footnote
Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-65) was an English gardener, architect, engineer and Member of Parliament, best known for designing the Crystal Palace and for cultivating the Cavendish banana. Paxton's botanical magazine was published from 1834 to 1849 with ‘Engravings of plants, of the natural size, beautifully coloured, from original drawings'.