Flora rustica :. exhibiting accurate figures of such plants as are either useful or injurious in husbandry /. Drawn and engraved by Frederick P. Nodder, botanic painter to Her Majesty, and coloured under his inspection with scientific characters, popular descriptions, and useful observations, by Thomas Martyn.
Thomas Martyn (1735-1825)
Category
Books
Date
1792 - 1794
Materials
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3255971
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v :. 144 col. pl. incl. front. (v.3) ;. 24 cm. Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Some damage to covers with boards visible.in some places. Provenance: ownership inscription in black ink on front pastedown of volume 1: 'G. W. Blathwayt 1792 Langridge' [= Rev. George William Blathwayt (1759-1806)]; 'Blathwayt' in brown ink (different hand) on front pastedown of volumes 2-4. Binding: eighteenth-century half-binding in tan leather over boards with marbled paper; simple gold tooling to spine; brown leather spine label with 'Flora Rustica' gilt lettered; gilt lettered volume number directly on spine.
Makers and roles
Thomas Martyn (1735-1825), author