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 3086080.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2 ; 4to. Pencil note: "Wanting plate 53" [Plate 53 is not wanting, but is bound as frontispiece to v. 2, according to binder's instructions in v. 1]. 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. II.'; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
R. W. Dickson, author Sansom, Francis, engraver (printmaker) Sydenham Edwards (1768 - 1819), illustrator