Folio (343 x 279 mm). 2 hand-colored engraved frontispieces (the second bound before plates) and 24 hand-colored plates. (Some occasional spotting.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rebacked preserving original spine, extremities rubbed, front hinge starting).

FIRST EDITION, in which Henderson provides instructions for drawing and painting flowers, which had of late become a fashionable 19th-century form of amusement. Henderson, who was one of the artists for Dr. Thornton's Temple of Flora, illustrates the four seasons using six different flowers for each quarter of the year. [Bound with:] A Treatise or Instructions for drawing and painting Flowers with general observations on the Art, as in the Dunthorne copy. Cleveland Collections 711; Dunthorne 126; Nissen BBI 848; Sitwell Great Flower Books, p.59.