Author: Smith, Sir James Edward.
Title: ENGLISH BOTANY. or, coloured figures of British plants, with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth. To which will be added, occasional remarks By ... The Figures by James Sowerby. Volumes 5 & 6 [only of 36].
Description: London : Printed for the Editor, by J. Davis; and sold at No. 2, Mead Place, near the Asylum; by Messrs. White, Booksellers, Fleet-Street; Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Dilly, in the Poultry; and by all booksellers &c. in town and country, 1796-7. 1st Ed. 2 vols. in 1. 141 hand colour plates (numbered 289-432) each with letterpress leaf. Light age toning and offsetting, workmanlike half maroon morocco with cloth boards, some dampstaining to cloth, lightly faded gilt lettered spine. ¶ ESTC T147671 ‘In fact all the letterpress is by James Edward Smith, except for the descriptions to plates 16, 17 and 18 which were supplied by Dr. Shaw. Originally published in 267 parts.’

Keywords: NATURAL HISTORY; BOTANY AND FLORA


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