The Botanic Garden.

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Benjamin Maund (1790–1863) was a British pharmacist, botanist, printer, bookseller, fellow of the Linnean Society (1827) and publisher of The Botanic Garden and The Botanist. He se rved on the committee of the Worcestershire Natural History Society where he started a monthly botanical publication.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, principally Edwin D. Smith, but also Maund's own daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah, contributed to the work.Plate volume only, with 179 hand-coloured plates, each with four botanical images. Loose in binding.Dunthorne 198 & 199. Show more