Flora Londinensis: : containing a history of the plants indigenous to Great Britain. Illustrated by figures of the natural size. / By the late William Curtis … .
William Curtis (1746-1799)
Category
Books
Date
1817 - 1828
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3069410
Summary
Bibliographic description
5 v. : ill. ; fol. 5 v. in 6. Imperfect: lacks title pages for vols. 3 and 5. Pencil vol. no. at head of first page of textblock in all vols. Booksellers' pencil notes on front free endpaper verso in v. 1: "best edition [?grub] £87-4-0"; "fine impressions 6 vols. 12/10/-"; pencil number "165" and pencil code "a/-/-" at foot of front free endpaper verso in v. 1. Ephemera: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this work tipped-in on front free endpaper verso of v. 1, price "18 18 0". Provenance: Nineteenth-century crest bookplate (not in Franks): 'Charles Wheeley Lea'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, marbled paper over boards; red morocco labels on upper boards, with gilt lettered title, list of contents and vol. no. within gilt rolled border; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spines; red and black morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Flora Londinensis.' and 'Vol. I[-VI].'; marbled endpapers. Binder's ticket on front pastedown in all vols.: 'Bound by S. Wells, 3, Broad St Worcester.'.
Makers and roles
William Curtis (1746-1799), author Graves, George, publisher Sir William Jackson Hooker, KH FRS FRSE FLS (1785-1865), author