Medical botany: . containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin; together with the principal medicinal plants not included in those pharmacop<oe>ias. ... By William Woodville ...
William Woodville (1752 - 1805)
Category
Books
Date
1832
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 3113071
Summary
Bibliographic description
5v. ([4], 242; [2, 243]-432; [2, 433]-612; [2, 614]-824, [30]; [2],157, [11]p., 274, [36] plates . ill... Not indigenous. Bound in 2 v. Plate 2 misbound following p. 20. Loosely inserted: brown bookmark ribbon, detached from v.1.. Provenance: Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Slip tipped in with manuscript notes concerning plates. Inscribed on flyleaf in Norris's hand: "Bow Windows 1969 NQW1-1-".. Binding: Early twentieth-century green morocco binding over boards; elaborate gilt fillets and spine panels; gilt edge-rolling; gilt spine title "Woodville's Medical botany"; sewn onto five raised bands. Binder's stamp: "Bound by J. Mackenzie, bookbinder to the King".
Makers and roles
William Woodville (1752 - 1805) Sir William Jackson Hooker, KH FRS FRSE FLS (1785-1865) George Spratt