An encyclopaedia of useful and ornamental plants, . consisting of beautiful and accurate coloured figures of plants used in the arts, in medicine, and for ornament, ... by the late Gilbert Thomas Burnett, ...
Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835)
Category
Books
Date
1852
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3115005
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates . col. ill.. . fol.. Additional plate and pamphlet by Cooper Cooper & Co. [cat. sep.] tipped in at 'tea plant', v.1; several loose plates by Hullmandel, cuttings etc. in v.2; manuscript sketch in v.2 at 'Dolichos pruriens' - Envelope addressed to Lady Wilkinson, containing wool, loose inside front board, v.1. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: 'John Gardner Wilkinson Brynfield House.' [i.e. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1795-1875)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full green gilt-embossed cloth; as issued. Guttapercha perished, book block broken and most leaves loose.
Makers and roles
Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835) M. A. Burnett