The botanical magazine; or, Flower-garden displayed: in which the most ornamental foreign plants, cultivated in the open ground, the green-house, and the stove, will be accurately represented in their natural colours. To which are added, their names, class, order, generic and specific characters, according to the celebrated Linnæus; their places of growh, and times of flowering: together with the most approved methods of culture. ...
William Curtis (1746-1799)
Category
Books
Date
1787 - 1799
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3088371
Summary
Bibliographic description
14v.,plates (col.) . ill.. (engr.) . 8vo.. Bound in seven volumes. Former pressmark: V.2.. Provenance: manuscript on flyleaf of vols I - VIII: J. & M. Trevelyan 1795 [i.e. Sir John Trevelyan (1761-1846) and Lady Maria Trevelyan (1772-1851)]. Nineteenth century pictorial armorial bookplate, lettered: Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan Bart. [i.e. Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan (1807-1886)]. Signed W.B.S. (William Bell Scott - see Fincham p.82) Franks.. Binding: Nineteenth-century full sprinkled leather; title labels.
Makers and roles
William Curtis (1746-1799)