Lot 25: LAWRANCE, MARY.

LAWRANCE, MARY. SKETCHES OF FLOWERS FROM NATURE. LONDON: TO BE HAD OF M. LAWRANCE, 1801 First edition , folio (350 x 282mm.), letterpress title and text leaf, 11 etched and stipple-engraved plates in two states, plain and hand-coloured, with plate one in a further third state with variant colouring, contemporary half roan over original boards, later red morocco-backed folding chemise, spine lettered in gilt, occasional slight spotting, binding rubbed

Nissen BBI 1153 (provides no collation)

Frederick, 2nd Lord Hesketh, bookplate

The rarest of all Lawrance's works, absent from most of the standard collections, not in the British Library, and not recorded at auction on ABPC.