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. Volume 11 [only of 36].
Description: London : Printed by Davis, Wilks, and Taylor ... 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, 1800 1st Ed. 72 hand colour plates (numbered 727-798) each with letterpress leaf (except plates, 788 & 789. Light age toning and offsetting, notation to verso of 11 plates at rear showing through to some plates, workmanlike half maroon morocco with cloth boards, some minor marking to cloth moreso to lower board, 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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