The botanical magazine; or, Flower-garden displayed: : in which the most ornamental foreign plants, cultivated in the open ground, the green-house, and the stove, will be accurately represented in their natural colours. To which will be added, their names, class, order, generic and specific characters, according to the celebrated Linnæus; their places of growth, and times of flowering: together with the most approved methods of culture. A work intended for the use of such ladies, gentlemen and gardeners, as wish to become technically acquainted with the plants they cultivate.
William Curtis (1746-1799)
Category
Books
Date
1787 - 1800
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3238597
Summary
Bibliographic description
14 v. bound in 7, plates (some fold) : col. ill. (engr.) ; 8vo. Shelved and uniform with 'Curtis's Botanical magazine'. Shelved with Samuel Curtis's 'General indexes to the plants contained in ... The botanical magazine ...' (1828). Indexes bound in at end of each vol. Small square cut out from front free endpaper of vol. 7-8. Pencil note on front pastedown of vol.1-2: "Vols 1-53 1787/1828 with index in cloth". Pencil notes on front pastedown of vol. 3-4: "V 1-53 bd in 32" and "(recd. 20 V.)". Bookseller's codes in pencil on front endpapers of vols. 1-2 and 3-4. $zHistoric shelfmarks in pencil: in vol. 1-2: "1 D.1.; in vol. 3-4: "1.D.2"; in vol. 5-6: "1.D.3"; in vol. 7-8: "1.D.4"; in other vols.: "1 D". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 1924: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: nineteenth-century half calf, marbled paper over boards; gilt fillets on spines; five recessed cords; green morocco spine labels, gilt-lettered: 'Botanical magazine' and gilt vol. nos. (traces remain of original numbering of vols. 1-10 as 1-5).
Makers and roles
William Curtis (1746-1799), author