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Title:
Flora Londinensis:
containing a history of the plants indigenous to Great Britain, illustrated by figures of the natural size.
Soulsby no.:
Soulsby no. 4896.
Edition details
Publisher:
Place of publication:
London
Publishing year:
1835
Edition:
A new ed.,
enl. by George Graves, and William Jackson Hooker.
Physical description:
5 v.
col. plates.
50 cm.
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Language(s):
English
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NYBG Bookplate: Purchased, R. H. S. - Red Cross Sale 1941.
Accessioned: Mar 13 1941, Royal Hort. Soc. Red Cross Sale.
Handcolored plates.
Accessioned: Mar 13 1941, Royal Hort. Soc. Red Cross Sale.
Handcolored plates.
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Subject:
Plants
England
London
Floras
Plants England London Pictorial works.
Plants Great Britain.
Plants Great Britain Pictorial works.
Plants England London Pictorial works.
Plants Great Britain.
Plants Great Britain Pictorial works.
Additional author(s):
Graves, George,
1754-1839.
Sir,
Hooker, William Jackson,
1785-1865.
1754-1839.
Sir,
Hooker, William Jackson,
1785-1865.
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ocm18969685
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Title details
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Title:
Flora Londinensis :
containing a history of the plants indigenous to Great Britain, illustrated by figures of the natural size. /
By the late William Curtis, F.L.S. author of the Botanical Magazine, &c.
Soulsby no.:
Post-Soulsby no. 4896
Edition details
Publisher:
Henry G. Bohn
Place of publication:
London
Publishing year:
1835
Edition:
A new edition, enlarged by George Graves, F.L.S. and William Jackson Hooker, LL.D., F.R.S. and L.S.
Physical description:
5 v. ([138] leaves of col. pls.; [132] leaves of col. pls.; [131] leaves of col. pls.;[128] leaves of col. pls.; [118] leaves of col. pls., [26 pp.]) ;
50 cm.
Series entry:
Language(s):
English
Notes
General notes:
Hooker's contributions to the Flora Londinensis: renaming of many plants, with reasons for the renamings given (in most but not all cases, the names are altered on the plates as well); rewritten text for the plants retained from the first edition; text for new plants, many of which are not found in the London area, so that with the second edition the work became more a British than a purely London flora; and the addition of order names according to natural classification to the original Linnaean class names.
First edition published in London, 1777-98. This issue is a re-impression of Hooker and Graves's "New edition" of 1817-1828, with new title pages.
Each volume has separate title page, identical except for the volume number.
F. Cardew's "A note on the number of plates in Curtis's Flora Londinensis ..." (1950), and a handwritten note by W.T. Stearn on the same subject, are loosely inserted at the front of Volume 1.
Complete imprint statement: London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. MDCCCXXXV.
Each plate has an accompanying leaf of text, generally printed on one side only, though that for the composite plate of Diphyscium foliosum and Buxbaumia aphylla (vol. 2 plate 180) involves five sides, on three leaves. The plates in the Lindley Library copy are arranged alphabetically, and given a new numbering sequence in pencil. Plate 615 is bound facing the text for the previous plate.
First edition published in London, 1777-98. This issue is a re-impression of Hooker and Graves's "New edition" of 1817-1828, with new title pages.
Each volume has separate title page, identical except for the volume number.
F. Cardew's "A note on the number of plates in Curtis's Flora Londinensis ..." (1950), and a handwritten note by W.T. Stearn on the same subject, are loosely inserted at the front of Volume 1.
Complete imprint statement: London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. MDCCCXXXV.
Each plate has an accompanying leaf of text, generally printed on one side only, though that for the composite plate of Diphyscium foliosum and Buxbaumia aphylla (vol. 2 plate 180) involves five sides, on three leaves. The plates in the Lindley Library copy are arranged alphabetically, and given a new numbering sequence in pencil. Plate 615 is bound facing the text for the previous plate.
Contents notes:
Each volume has a separate title-page, identical except for the volume number, and at the end of volume V are 26 pages of Indexes: four for each volume separately and a General Index, in Latin and English, of the plants illustrated in the whole work. This last comprises 647 plates. The Lindley Library copy contains 646 plates, lacking only the plate and description of Bartsia viscosa (Pl. [69]).
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Subject:
Flora
18th century.
19th century.
Classification system: Linnaeus.
Natural classification.
London (England)
England
Great Britain.
Plant illustrations.
Floras
18th century.
19th century.
Classification system: Linnaeus.
Natural classification.
London (England)
England
Great Britain.
Plant illustrations.
Floras
Additional author(s):
Graves, George
(1784-1839).
Hooker, William Jackson
(1785-1865).
Cory, Reginald Radcliffe
(1871-1934)
(1784-1839).
Hooker, William Jackson
(1785-1865).
Cory, Reginald Radcliffe
(1871-1934)
Additional corporate author(s):
Henry G. Bohn (London, England)
Charles Hullmandel (London, England)
Charles Hullmandel (London, England)
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Bound in half calf with gilt single fillets at internal edges; paper over boards marbled in small spot and curl pattern; endpapers marbled in similar but less faded pattern. Panelled spine with gilt lettering: FLORA / LONDINENSIS // VOL. / I. [&c]; five raised bands, almost all now lost.
ENGFLORA
The date 1817 is written in pencil on the base of the title-page of vol. 1. Numbers of plates and accompanying text leaves written in pencil according to binding sequence. N I L stamped in purple on front free endpaper verso, which also bears Cory's handwriting: Sotheby W & H. 7th Nov. 1923. £19. (5 vols.) (5% to Dulau for bidding). The number 63 is written in pencil on the text for plate 418.
ENGFLORA
The date 1817 is written in pencil on the base of the title-page of vol. 1. Numbers of plates and accompanying text leaves written in pencil according to binding sequence. N I L stamped in purple on front free endpaper verso, which also bears Cory's handwriting: Sotheby W & H. 7th Nov. 1923. £19. (5 vols.) (5% to Dulau for bidding). The number 63 is written in pencil on the text for plate 418.