Details - Flora Londinensis, or, Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London : with their places of growth, and times of flowering, their several names according to Linnæus and other authors : with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English : to which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural œconomy and other arts

Flora Londinensis, or, Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London

Title

Flora Londinensis, or, Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London : with their places of growth, and times of flowering, their several names according to Linnæus and other authors : with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English : to which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural œconomy and other arts

Title Variants

Alternative: Flora londinensis
Alternative: Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London

Related Titles

Related/Analytical: Flora Londinensis
Related/Analytical: Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London

By

Curtis, William, 1746-1799

Darton, William, 1755-1819
Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819
Kilburn, William, 1745-1818
Sansom, Francis, active 1784-1799
Sowerby, James, 1757-1822
White, Benjamin, approximately 1724-1794
White, Benjamin, 1879-

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Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed for and sold by the author ... and B. White, 1777

Notes

Title vignette.

Binding: 6 pts. in the original paper boards; all pages uncut; each vol. varies slightly in size.

Engraved title vignettes.

Includes 432 engraved plates, three on double plates, with unpaginated text. The plates are numbered three different ways: 1. arranged according to the Linnaean system; 2. arranged alphabetically by Latin names; 3. arranged alphabetically by English names.

Originally issued in 72 numbers, forming 6 fascicles to be bound in two vols. Vol. 1 (fasc. 1-3) contains the title page for vol. 1, two lists of subscribers, a preface, a dedication to John Stuart, Earl of Bute, descriptions of plants starting with "Veronica agrestis", indexes to each fasc. and general indexes to fasc. 1-3; vol. 2 (fasc. 4-6) contains the title page for vol. 2, a dedication to John Coakly Lettsom, descriptions of plants starting with "Hippuria vulgaris", indexes to each fasc. and general indexes to fasc. 4-6.

The plates are engraved by William Kilburn, Francis Sansom, James Sowerby, Sydenham Edwards, William Darton.

Vol. 2 has imprint: London : Printed for and sold by the author, no. 3 St. George's Crescent, Black-Friars-Road, 1778.

Hunt botanical cat. | 650

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), | 439

Plant names in English and Latin.