Curtis's botanical magazine; or, flower-garden displayed: : in which the most ornamental foreign plants, cultivated in the open ground, the green-house, and the stove, are accurately represented in their natural colours. To which are 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 scientifically acquainted with the plants they cultivate. / Continued by John Sims ...
John Sims
Category
Books
Date
1801 - 1826
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3238610
Summary
Bibliographic description
39 v. in 25, plates : col. ill. ; 8vo. Holdings: vol. 15-53 (1801-1826). Bound as 2 vols. in 1 up to vol. 42. Shelved and uniform with Curtis's 'Botanical magazine' (1787-1800). Shelved with Samuel Curtis's 'General indexes to the plants contained in ... The botanical magazine ...' (1828). Indexes bound in at end of each vol. Historic shelfmark in pencil: "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)]. Bookplate in vol. 17-18 pasted over earlier ink note or inscription. Binding: nineteenth-century half calf, marbled paper over boards; gilt fillets on spines; recessed cords; green morocco spine labels, gilt-lettered: 'Botanical magazine' and gilt vol. nos.
Makers and roles
John Sims, author