Paxton’s Flower Garden Prints 1884

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Title Page PFG149 SOLD	Title Page PFG150 SOLD	Title Page PFG151 $25


The Crimson Water Lily Nymphaea rubra PFG155 $75	Deep Blood Coloured Moutan Moutan officinalis astrosanguinea PFG158 $65	Many Spiked Billbergia Billbergia polystachya PFG170 $45


Ceylon Rhododendron Rhododendron rollissonii PFG164 SOLD	Andre's Anthurium Anthurium andraeanum PFG163 $55	Ciliated Rhododendron Rhododendron ciliatum PFG166 $65


Copious Flowered Crab Pyrus malus floribunda PFG167 SOLD	The Hybrid Crenate Cactus Phyllocactus speciosissimo-crenatus PFG152 $65	Double Chinese Peach Trees Amygdalus persica flore semipleno PFG169 $45


Drummond's Side Saddle Flower, Florida PFG173 $85	Dwarf Crimson Chinese Azalea Azalea amoena PFG178 $45	Retuse Echeveria Echeveria retusa PFG175 $45


Mysore Hexacentre Hexacentris mysorensis PFG179 $45	Long-flowered Centranth Centranthus macrosiphon PFG180 $45	Splendid aeschynanth Aeschynanthus splendidus PFG181 $45


Boronia Elatior, Australia PFG182 $55	Close-headed Bejaria Bejaria coarctata PFG183 $35	Dampier's Clianthe Clianthus dampieri, New Holland PFG184 $55


Box-leaved Cantua Cantua buxifolia PFG185 $45	Bland Amaryllis Amaryllis blanda PFG186 $75

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An illustrious English horticulturist, Joseph Paxton was born in 1801. Without formal education, his dedication to horticulture eventually earned him a seat in the House of Commons and a knighthood. His Magazine of Botany series, published in 16 volumes from 1834-1849 have become highly prized for their brilliant colors and the outstanding beauty of the plants illustrated. With Professor Lindley, he also published Paxton’s Flower Garden, usually found in three volumes with 108 hands colored plates.

It is from this much rarer and larger work that we are offering these chromolithographs with hand finishing and gum arabic. It is a work distinguished by the artistry and graceful composition of the plates, which also retain the beautiful and intense coloring that the Magazine of Botany is noted for. Each print is large at approximately 8 ½ by 11 inches and is accompanied by the relevant descriptive text whenever possible. The condition of these prints is excellent, with the paper a bright color & almost entirely free of foxing. Please inspect the image carefully, as it is very accurate. These prints are about 133 years old and some of the most vivid and unusual prints of this entire epoch.