Coloured engravings of heaths. . The drawings taken from living plants only. With the appropriate specific character, full description, native place of growth, and time of flowering of each; in Latin and English. Each figure accompanied by accurate dissections of the several parts, (magnified where necessary,) upon which the specific distinction has been founded, according to the Linnaean system. The whole executed by H. C. Andrews, ...
Henry Cranke Andrews (1758/9 - 1835)
Category
Books
Date
1802 - 1809
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3050500
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v., [288] leaves of plates . col. ill.. . fol... Not identified in 1768 catalogue.. Provenance: Bookplate in each vol.: George Harry Grey (1765-1845) after 1819; anonymous armorial. Not in Franks or Viner.. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf bindings, with large inset panel of marbled paper on each board; gold-tooled spines, with gilt title: 'Andrews heaths'.
Makers and roles
Henry Cranke Andrews (1758/9 - 1835)