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The botanic garden :
a poem, in two parts : containing the economy of vegetation and the loves of the plants. With philosophical notes /
by Erasmus Darwin, M.D.
Soulsby no.:
Post-Soulsby no. 4887
Edition details
Publisher:
Jones & Company
Place of publication:
London
Publishing year:
1824
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Physical description:
Pp. viii, v-vi, 9-203, [8] leaves of plates :
ill., frontis., chart ;
22.2 cm (4°)
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English
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Signatures: [A]-Z4 Aa-Bb4 Cc2 [$1 signed]. Opening collation runs [A]1, 2, 4, 3 (pp. [i-iv], vii-viii, v-vi).
Part II of The Botanic Garden (The loves of the plants) was published first, in 1789, and part I (The economy of vegetation) in 1791. By that time, however, part II had appeared in a second edition (1790), and each subsequent edition can be considered as a composite of two editions, until the third/fourth edition of 1795/94. There followed another "fourth" edition in 1799, and an unnumbered posthumous edition in 1824. See Henrey 468-471, 612-614 for details.
Printed in double columns.
Part II of The Botanic Garden (The loves of the plants) was published first, in 1789, and part I (The economy of vegetation) in 1791. By that time, however, part II had appeared in a second edition (1790), and each subsequent edition can be considered as a composite of two editions, until the third/fourth edition of 1795/94. There followed another "fourth" edition in 1799, and an unnumbered posthumous edition in 1824. See Henrey 468-471, 612-614 for details.
Printed in double columns.
Contents notes:
The loves of the plants is a fanciful treatment of the Linnaean system of classification, with the pistil represented by a maiden, courted by swains to the number of the stamens.
Additional notes for Part I (The economy of vegetation): 1. Meteors. 2. Primary colours. 3. Coloured clourds. 4. Comets. 5. Sun's rays. 6. Central fires. 7. Elementary heat. 8. Memnon's lyre. 9. Luminous insects. 10. Phosphorus. 11. Steam-engine. 12. Frost. 13. Electricity [& fairy-rings]. 14. Buds and bulbs. 15. Solar volcanoes. 16. Calcareous earth. 17. Morasses. 18. Iron. 19. Flint. 20. Clay. 21. Enamels. 22. Portland vase. 23. Coal. 24. Granite. 25. Evaporation. 26. Springs. 27. Shell fish. 28. Sturgeon. 29. Oil on water. 30. Ship-worm. 31. Maelstrom. 32. Glacier. 33. Winds. 34. Vegetable perspiration. 35. Vegetable placentation. 36. Vegetable circulation. 37. Vegetable respiration. 38. Vegetable impregnation. 39. Vegetable glandulation. - Additional notes for part II (The loves of the plans) are not so numbered, but the major note is the Description of the poison-tree in the island of Java.
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Subject:
Botany
Classification system: Linnaeus.
Colour
Plant physiology.
Soils
Antiaris toxicaria.
18th century.
Poetry
Classification system: Linnaeus.
Colour
Plant physiology.
Soils
Antiaris toxicaria.
18th century.
Poetry
Additional author(s):
Cowper, William
(1731-1800).
Hayley, William
(1745-1820).
Mundy, Francis Noel Clarke
(1739-1815).
Polwhele, Richard
(1760-1838).
Stephens, W. B.
(1731-1800).
Hayley, William
(1745-1820).
Mundy, Francis Noel Clarke
(1739-1815).
Polwhele, Richard
(1760-1838).
Stephens, W. B.
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Jones and Company (London, England)
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Rebound by Maltby, 1989. Rounded spine in brown calf, with paper over boards marbled in brown and green modern Turkish pattern. Spine with gilt single fillets top and base, and longitudinal gilt title: THE BOTANIC GARDEN - DARWIN, with date 1824 at base of spine. Top-edge stained.