The new botanic garden, : illustrated with one hundred and thirty-three plants / engraved by Sansom, from the original pictures; and coloured with the greatest exactness from drawings by Sydenham Edwards.
R. W. Dickson
Category
Books
Date
1812
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3086080.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1 ; 4to. Historic shelfmark in pencil: "AA 73". Ephemera: loosely inserted typescript catalogue card. Pencil bookseller's notes: "2 vols very fine uncut copy. £7-10-0. 60 coloured plates"; "234"; "B" and "rc/./-". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Manuscript inscription: "W.l.d. Niger"[?]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half green morocco, green cloth over boards; sewn onto five recessed cords; five false bands; gilt-stamped flower in urn in spine compartments, spine gilt lettered: 'Edwards' Botanic garden Vol. I.'; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
R. W. Dickson, author Sansom, Francis, engraver (printmaker) Sydenham Edwards (1768 - 1819), illustrator