Curtis's botanical magazine; or, flower-garden displayed: . in which the most ornamental foreign plants ... are accurately represented in their natural colours. To which are added, their names, class, order ... together with the most approved methods of culture. ... continued by John Sims.
William Curtis (1746-1799)
Category
Books
Date
1803 - 1825
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3045124
Summary
Bibliographic description
60v., plates . 8vo.. eHoldings: 1801-1848, i.e. to vol. LXXIV or vol.IV of the third series edited Sir William Hooker. Pagination is continuous. Bound 2 issues per volume up to vol.42. Former pressmark V.2/3.. Provenance: Nineteenth century pictorial armorial bookplate, lettered: Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan Bart. [i.e. Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan (1807-1886)]. Signed W.B.S. (William Bell Scott - see Fincham p.82) Franks.. Binding: Nineteenth-century full sprinkled leather; red title labels, green volume labels, uniform with vols. 1-14. Vols. 50 onwards are half bound with marbled boards.
Makers and roles
William Curtis (1746-1799) Sir William Jackson Hooker, KH FRS FRSE FLS (1785-1865) John Sims