A supplement to Medical botany, : or, part the second: containing plates with descriptions of most of the principal medicinal plants not included in the Materia Medica ... / By William Woodville, ...
William Woodville (1752 - 1805)
Category
Books
Date
1794
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124738.2.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 169, [11] p., [64] leaves of plates ; 4to. Bound with vol. 3 of Woodville's 'Medical botany' (1790-1793). Occasional pencil shading on blank leaves. Pencil note on second front free endpaper of vol. 1-2 of Woodville's 'Medical botany' (1790-1793) re. whole set: "3 vols and Supplement in 2 vols". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Pencil note on verso of front free endpaper: "F 1939" [i.e. Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late eighteenth-century diced calf; gilt rolled outer border and board edges; recessed cords; spine gilt, lettered direct :'Medical botany'; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
William Woodville (1752 - 1805), author James Sowerby (London 1757 - London 1822), illustrator