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 James Sowerby, F.L.S.
Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828)
Category
Books
Date
1790 - 1814
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3045253
Summary
Bibliographic description
36v.,plates . 8vo.. Imperfect: vols. 1-20 only, with 21st volume containing General indexes (with separate imprint, see NT115827); also, prefaces to first, fourth and seventh volumes, title pages for vols. 21-36, (having as its initial title page Vol. 21), and individual indexes for all volumes. Bookseller's note in pencil on vol. 1 endpaper: "24 vols + mss index ... 21 vols 1790-1805, 3 Sup 1831-43, 1 ms index". - Various pencil and ink manuscript annotations; leaves in each volume numbered in manuscript - Loosely inserted in vol. 15 (l.[72]): letter headed 'Lynn / 29 Nov. 1841'; signed 'Yours faithfully / George Munford', beginning "My dear Sir, The beautiful plant you sent me this morning ... ". Provenance: Armorial bookplate (all vols.): S.C.E. Neville Rolfe. Heacham Hall. - Loosely inserted (vol.1 only): Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: "Sir John Harpur Crewe. Bart." [i.e. Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Baronet (1824-1886)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, with marbled paper on boards, gilt tooled, gilt lettered on spine: Sowerby's English botany.
Makers and roles
Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828) James Sowerby (London 1757 - London 1822)