Curtis Flora Londinensis Botanical Prints 1775

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Arum maculatum CFL4 ~~$175~~ Sale Price: $85	Datura Stramonium CFL2 ~~$175~~ Sale Price: $85


Orchid, Orchis mascula CFL9 ~~$195~~ Sale Price: $95	Convolvulus sepium CFL6 ~~$175~~ Sale Price: $85


Saponaria officinalis CFL11 ~~$195~~ Sale Price: $95	Molva moschata CFL12 ~~$195~~ Sale Price: $95


Clematis vitalba CFL13 ~~$165~~ Sale Price: $80	Malva sylvestris full margins not shown CFL14 ~~$185~~ Sale Price: $90


Epilobium angustifolium CFL15 ~~$175~~ Sale Price: $85	Hypericum androsaemum full margins not shown CFL16 ~~$155~~ Sale Price: $75


Iris pseudacorus full margins not shown CFL27 ~~$195~~ Sale Price: $95	Epilobium hirsutum CFL18 ~~$175~~ Sale Price: $85


Butomus umbellatus full margins not shown CFL19 ~~$165~~ Sale Price: $80	Lychnis flos cuculi full margins not shown CFL20 ~~$155~~ Sale Price: $75


Vinca major CFL21 ~~$185~~ Sale Price: $95	Chicory, Cichorium intybus full margins not shown CFL22 ~~$185~~ Sale Price: $95


Inula dysenterica CFL29 ~~$175~~ Sale Price: $85	Buttercup, Ranunculus hirsutus CFL30 ~~$185~~ Sale Price: $95


Solanum dulcamara full margins not shown CFL33 ~~$155~~ Sale Price: $75	Geranium pyrenaicum full margins not shown CFL34 ~~$175~~ Sale Price: $85


Symphytum officinale full margins not shown CFL35 ~~$175~~ Sale Price: $85	Helleborus viridis full margins not shown CFL36 ~~$195~~ Sale Price: $95


Common Teasel, Dipsacus sylvestris full margins not shown CFL32 ~~$175~~ Sale Price: $85	Snowdrop, Leucojum aestivum full margins not shown CFL38 ~~$175~~ Sale Price: $85


Orchid, Orchis fusca CFL39 ~~$185~~ Sale Price: $95	Orchid, Orchis bifolia CFL40 ~~$165~~ Sale Price: $80


Hydrocharis morsus ranae Full margins not shown CFL41 ~~$165~~ Sale Price: $80	Mercuralis perennis Full margins not shown CFL42 ~~$165~~ Sale Price: $80

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We are honored to offer a selection of superb hand colored folio engravings from the first edition of Flora Londinensis by William Curtis. These first edition prints are the rarest of Curtis's large-scale prints.

This comprehensive and elegant work was Curtis’ masterpiece and the first comprehensive study of the flora of England. The artists included the inimitable James Sowerby, Sydenham Teak Edwards, Francis Sansom & William Kilburn, all in their salad days, when the sap ran strong & creative!

Born in Alton in 1746, William Curtis early on left an apprenticeship at an apothecary to pursue the passion which unites us all, the love of plants. Out of this love came the Flora Londinensis, which, though highly acclaimed by his fellow naturalists, was not a financial success. Curtis had labored on this work for over ten years, selling it out of his own home. He finally came to the understanding that a work of showy & bright exotic plants would be more likely to succeed with the general public than images of the wayside & woodland plants of England. Thus was born, in 1787, the Botanical Magazine, which Curtis called his “pudding” as it earned him sustenance, rather than the unremunerative praise of the Flora Londinensis. We have faith that time has allowed us to developed a much greater appreciation of this seminal work.

(References: Sotheby's 1987 Catalog, pg. 140 & Blunt, The Art of Botanical Illustration, 1950, pg. 184-185)