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 14 [only of 36].
Description: London : Printed by Wilks, and Taylor ... No. 2, Mead Place, near the Asylum; by Messrs. White, Booksellers, Fleet-Street; Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Symonds Pater noster Row, Poultry; and by all booksellers &c. in town and country, 1802. 1st Ed. 72 hand colour plates (numbered 1945-2016) each with letterpress leaf. Ownership signature of A.B. Lonsade to head of title page, light age toning and offsetting, workmanlike half maroon morocco with cloth boards, some minor marking and sl. fading 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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