Hammer

£650

Penfold, Jane Wallas (fl. 1820-1850, artist) and William Lewes Pugh Garnons (1791-1863), Madeira Flowers, Fruits, and Ferns. London: Reeve, Brothers, 1845. 4º (305 x 240mm). Hand-coloured lithographed additional title and 20 hand-coloured lithographed plates by R. E. B. after Penfold, 3 double-page, subscribers leaf with woodcut border. Original green cloth gilt, boards with borders and foliate cornerpieces in blind, upper board with central gilt urn design repeated in blind on the lower board, spine lettered in gilt. Inscribed to inside cover 'William Wordsworth Esq from the Author' and Grangerised with a letter to the TLS March 6th 1919, which points out that the verses by Wordsworth published in this work constitute their first appearance in print. The letter also notes that Penfold's daughter, Augusta J. Robley, published a work on the same subject in the same year, 'A Selection of Madeira Flowers, Drawn and Coloured from Nature (London: Reeve Brothers, 1845)' - it is odd that neither work refers to the other. This book has 'local information appended to most of the pages [by] a younger and less experienced writer' (preface); it seems possible that this younger writer was the author's daughter.