The vegetable system. : Or, The internal structure and the life of plants; their parts, and nourishment, explained; their classes, orders, genera, and species, ascertained, and described; in a method altogether new: comprehending an artificial index, and a natural system. With figures of all plants. Designed and engraved by the author. The whole from nature only. / By John Hill, M.D. member of the Imperial Academy, &c. &c.
John Hill (1714-1775)
Category
Books
Date
1773
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3242015.1.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
The second edition: / corrected by the author; and with all the plates retouched and improved. Vol. I. Containing a new anatomy of plants. iv, 150, [2] p., 21 leaves of plates ; fol. Loose sheet of engraved and hand-coloured flowers inserted between pp. 120-21 – watermarked with Fleur-de-Lys, [arms], “GR”. “Partes fructificationis. Parts of the plants subservient to their Fructifications.” Page 21. Plate 10. Bound with vol. 2, 1st ed., 1773. Provenance: No marks of provenance. Binding: Eighteenth-century polished tree sheep over boards on six recessed cords; gilt spine tooling; Greek key border roll on covers; gilt rolls on board edges and inners; yellow painted edges; pale blue silk bookmark.
Makers and roles
John Hill (1714-1775), author John Hill (1714-1775), artist