The botanic garden; . a poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing the economy of vegetation. Part II. The loves of the plants. With philosophical notes.
Erasmus Darwin (1731 - 1802)
Category
Books
Date
1791
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Chastleton House, Oxfordshire
NT 3156781
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, [2], xii, 212, [1], 212-214, 126, [6], ix, [1], 197, [1] p., plates . ill.. . 4to. Upper boards disbound, front endpapers to page v coming loose. Provenance: adhered to front pastedown, armorial bookplate of Egerton V. Harcourt with pencil marks, superimposed on label of Ann Venables Vernon. Binding: eighteenth-century full tree calf, gold-tooled to form a border, gold-decorated spine, red spine-label, gold-lettered. Gilt-tooled board edges and turn-ins. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Erasmus Darwin (1731 - 1802)