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
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3086081
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([8], 503, [1] p., 60 [i.e. 61] leaves of plates) ; 4to. Historic shelfmarks: 3F (pencil, both vols., erased in vol. 1); H4 (pencil, vol. 1 only). Booksellers' codes on front free endpaper verso: "E6 / C" (ink, both vols.), "E4 / N/HL/x" (pencil, vol. 1 only). Pencil number "31" on front free endpaper in vol. 2. Ephemera: scrap of paper used as a marker in vol. 1. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant) in both vols., signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-centry full sprinkled, polished calf; gilt fillets and roll to form a border; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt and blind tooled spines; black spine labels, gilt-lettered: 'Botanic garden' and 'Vol. I[-II]'; gilt rolled board edge corners and turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
R. W. Dickson, author Sydenham Edwards (1768 - 1819), artist Sansom, Francis, engraver (printmaker)