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 - 1788
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3238597.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1-2, plates : col. ill. (engr.) ; 8vo. Indexes bound in at end. Pencil note on front pastedown: "Vols 1-53 1787/1828 with index in cloth". Bookseller's codes in pencil on front endpapers. Historic shelfmark in pencil: "1 D.1". 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 spine; five recessed cords; green morocco spine labels, gilt-lettered: 'Botanical magazine' and gilt vol. no.
Makers and roles
William Curtis (1746-1799), author