Geraniums: : or a monograph of the genus geranium: containing coloured figures of all the known species and numerous beautiful varieties, drawn, engraved, described, and coloured, from the living plants. / By H.C. Andrews, ...
Henry Cranke Andrews (1758/9 - 1835)
Category
Books
Date
1805
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100988
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ; 4to. Imperfect: 74 plates only, bound in 1 v. Letterpress leaves foliated. Bookseller's pencil notes on front pastedown. Ephemera: loosely inserted manuscript "index" [i.e. contents list] in nineteenth-century hand. Typescript catalogue card used as a marker. Provenance: Late eighteenth- / early nineteenth-century wreath armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Chrisr. Jeaffreson Esqr. Dullingham House'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Early nineteenth-century grey paper over boards, as issued; spine lettered direct (manuscript): "Andrews on Geraniums". Typescript note pasted onto rear pastedown describing late twentieth-century repair.
Makers and roles
Henry Cranke Andrews (1758/9 - 1835), author Henry Cranke Andrews (1758/9 - 1835), artist