GROUPS OF FLOWERS, DRAWN AND ACCURATELY COLOURED AFTER NATURE, WITH FULL DIRECTIONS FOR THE YOUNG ARTIST; Designed as a Companion to the Treatise on Flower Painting [bound with] GROUPS OF FRUIT [bound with] SIX BIRDS

London: Thomas McLean, printed by Turner and Hadley, Minerva Press, 1819. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine with minor wear to the binding. Three parts in one folio (10-1/2" x 14-3/4") volume in original boards rebacked with black leather which also surrounds the entire covers with a matching gilt-lettered label on the center of the front cover; owner's name stamped in gilt at the bottom; half-titles, advertisement leaf in first and third parts. Illustrated with 36 plates, comprising 18 stipple-engraved plates after Brookshaw in two states: hand-colored and uncolored. A complete set of Brookshaw's finely illustrated series of natural history plates. Botanical drawing books were popular during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as many amateur artists, especially women, were eager for instruction in the skill of painting flowers in particular.