Plate 27. Phlox Drummondi, Leptosiphon densiflorus, Leptosphon androsaceus; The Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials
London: William Smith, 1843. First edition. Single sheet matted in rag board. A Fine original hand-colored lithograph on paper. Quarto (20.95 x 27.30 cm, 8.25 x 10.75 inches). An artist and visionary author, Jane Webb Loudon (1807-1858) was born at Ritwell House, near Birmingham, England into a nonliterary, non-gardening family..... More