Author: Maund, B[enjamin].
Title: THE BOTANIC GARDEN: Consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, Cultivated in Great Britain: With Their Classification History Culture and Other Interesting Information.
Description: London: Published by Baldwin, Cradock & Joy ..., 1825-51. 26 parts in in 13 vols. With The Auctarium; The Floral Register; The Fruitist bound in. 312 hand coloured plates, numerous wood engravings. With 16 decorative title pages, with 7 printed title pages, with printed title to Fruitist, Auctarium Part II and Floral Register Part II. Volumes 6, 7 8, 9, 10 with central vertical crease throughout to first few leaves of vol. 11., some foxing, light age toning, some offsetting, plate 136 with part of tissue guard adhered, volume 5 onwards with dampstain in part to tail of prelims. more intrusive to vols. 5 and 6 intruding slightly onto first few leaves and in vol. 6. affecting the leading corner of some central leaves, volumes 1 and 2 in early black half calf with marbled boards, gilt tooled spines with gilt lettering, hinges weakening; remaining volumes in green half calf with marbled boards, gilt ruling and gilt lettered black labels to spines, light watermark to tails of spines of volumes 4 onwards; minor wear and marking, extremities sl. rubbed with loss to heads of several spines. ¶ Benjamin Maund (bap. 1790, d. 1864), botanist and horticulturist. ‘... 'Man, by nature, inherits the love of flowers', Maund wrote in the preface to volume one of the Botanic Garden (13 vols., 1825–51). He sought to share his lifelong passion by producing an interesting and useful publication affordable to everyone. Each monthly issue contained a plate with four engraved and hand-coloured figures of hardy ornamental flowering plants and eight pages of text. The principal artist was Edward Dalton Smith, of Chelsea, and the engraver, S. Watts. Maund, it is claimed, started the fashion for inserting additional material at the end of monthly numbers of botanical periodicals. With the Botanic Garden he issued The Auctarium (1833), a miscellany of practical advice and information; The Floral Register (1834), a source for newly introduced plants; and The Fruitist (inserted into the last three volumes), [all present in our volumes] a forum for disseminating knowledge through notes and readers' questions. In 1827 he became a fellow of the Linnean Society ...’ Starting in 1825, Maund produced The Botanic Garden from his press at Bromsgrove in Worcestershire. The 13 volumes of this periodical depicted with great delicacy ornamental flowering plants cultivated in the Royal Gardens and was dedicated to the young Queen Victoria. Eminent botanical artists such as Augusta Innes Withers, Edwin D. Smith, Mrs. Edward Bury and Maund's own daughter contributed to the work. The work was published by Baldwin, Cradock & Joy of London.

Keywords: NATURAL HISTORY; BOTANY AND FLORA


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