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
1815
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3238610.14
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 41-42, plates : col. ill. ; 8vo. 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)]. Binding: nineteenth-century half calf, marbled paper over boards; gilt fillets on spine; recessed cords; green morocco spine labels, gilt-lettered: 'Botanical magazine' and gilt vol. nos.
Makers and roles
John Sims, author