Familiar Indian flowers

Lena Lowis, Familiar Indian flowers, London: L Reeve,Thacker Spink and Co., 1878

30 exquisite chromolithograph plates of Indian flowers drawn by Lena Lowis, lithographed by D. Blair, and printed by the lithographic firm of M. & N. Hanhart. Each page is accompanied by descriptive text of the depicted species, with information drawn from numerous sources appended in the quotations; original decorated cloth, all edges gilt
11.5 x 8.2 in (28.7 x 20.5 cm)

Lena Lowis (born Selina Caroline Shakespear) (3 November 1845, India - 18 November 1919, London) was an Indian-born writer, scientific and botanical illustrator, noted for her 1878 publication Familiar Indian Flowers which was advertised in The Times (London) in April 1881 as "with 30 coloured plates, 31s. 6d."

She was the daughter of Sir Richmond Campbell Shakespear (1812-1861), an Indian-born British Indian Army officer, who had married Marian Sophia Thompson at Agra, India on 5 March 1844 (Source: Wikipedia)

This book was meant as a "simple chronicle of some of the familiar flowers to be met with in our Indian gardens." As evidenced by the inclusion of the poinsettia, the work was not devoted to plants native to India, but rather to those plants commonly cultivated in gardens throughout the country.

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