Stunning double plate of a Banksia littoralis with heaps of character. 

Original hand-coloured steel engraving by S. Watts after a drawing by the American artist Mary Theresa Hart  for “Edward’s Botanical Register, or, Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery” by Sydenham Teast Edwards, published in London circa 1830 by J. Ridgway.

Please note there is slight offsetting and other slightly age discolouration to the fold horizontally across the page, as is common in images of this size and style, printed for a quarto-sized publication. 

Size of the full page is 305mm x  235mm (12" x 9.1/2")