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BROOKSHAW, George (1751-1823). A New Treatise on Flower Painting, or Every Lady Her Own Drawing Master... London: J. M'Creery for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, J. Booth and J. Lepard, 1818. Large 4° (290 x 232mm). 25 engraved plates after Brookshaw, including 12 plates present in two states, hand-coloured and uncoloured, 8 text pages with integral hand-coloured examples of tints. (Small hole in the 12th plate, light offsetting from coloured plates onto their facing uncoloured counterparts.) Modern oatmeal drab boards, letterpress label on spine. A "delightful book" (Dunthorne). The publishing history of this work is complicated: Brookshaw appears to have published up to three editions in parts, either anonymously or using the pseudonym 'G.Brown', between 1797 and 1803. In 1816, an edition was published under his own name, and in 1818 the present edition appeared. In 1817 a Supplement to the treatise was published. There is some internal evidence to support this sequence: Brookshaw notes on pp.35-6 that "The two first lessons... comprise all the instruction that the author originally meant to give, intending it only as a present to his friends; but having been seen by Reviewers, and recommended by them, the numerous applications made for it induced him to publish it... but he was prevented from completing it... being engaged in executing his large folio... Pomona Britannica." The Pomona was issued between 1804 and 1812. Cf. Lucy Wood "George Brookshaw: The case of the vanishing cabinet-maker", Apollo , May 1991. Henrey III, 519; Dunthorne 52.