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Title:
Thirty-eight plates, [by F.P. Nodder] with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnæus's System of Vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany [by J.J. Rousseau] /
[compiled by] Thomas Martyn
Soulsby no.:
Soulsby no. 594a
Edition details
Publisher:
Printed for J. White
Place of publication:
London
Publishing year:
1799
Edition:
Physical description:
vi, 72 p. :
38 pls. ;
24 cm.
Series entry:
Language(s):
English
Notes
General notes:
The plates in this edition are not coloured. Lacks the list of books published.
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Provenance:
NHM GENERAL Copy 1 - Bookplate of Basil Soulsby on front endpaper.
NHM GENERAL Copy 2 - Bookplate of Walter [?] on front endpaper. Part of the plate is rubbed off. Hole in front flyleaf. Bibliographical notations in pencil on back endpaper.
Title history:
Language notes:
In English.
With note:
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Additional author(s):
Nodder, Frederick Polydore,
fl. 1767-1800.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
1712-1778.
Linné, Carl von,
1707-1778
fl. 1767-1800.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
1712-1778.
Linné, Carl von,
1707-1778
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Additional title(s):
Systema vegetabilium
OPAC identifier:
9929516102081
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By permission of the Trustees of The Natural History Museum (London).
NHM GENERAL Copy 1 - Presented by Basil H. Soulsby. 29.v.1930; H. Cork; 3/-.
NHM GENERAL Copy 2 - Fisk & Fitzgerald. 27/7/1978. £19.50.
NHM GENERAL Copy 2 - p. 71 and 72 are transposed. '606' in pencil on front endpaper.
NHM GENERAL Copy 1 - Has been rebound, but pages have not been trimmed.
Rev. Thomas Martyn was a preacher, botanist, professor of botany at Cambridge, popular writer on natural history and an enthusiastic proponent of the Linnaean system of classification. The first edition of his translation and continuation of Rousseau (Letters on the elements of botany, addressed to a lady by the celebrated J. .J. Rousseau, translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the System of Linnaeus) was published in 1785, with a second edition two years later. Both lacked illustrations. This deficiency was remedied the following year, when Martyn was persuaded to embellish the work with explanatory drawings. As he says in the Advertisement at the beginning of this edition, 'Some persons, who have honoured the Letters on the Elements of Botany with their approbation, having signified a wish that the subject might be still farther illustrated by figures, Mr. Nodder, an ingenious artist, has been employed for this purpose'. Frederick Polydore Nodder (fl.1767-1800) was probably of German origin. It is likely that he was the Mr Nodder of Panton Street who submitted several novelty paintings to the Society of Artists in 1774 and exhibited five flower paintings at the Royal Academy between 1786 and 1788. In the exhibition catalogue he was described as 'Draughtsman in Natural History' and as 'Botanic Painter to her Majesty'. Nodder's first major work was Martyn's Letters, and he went on to illustrate Erasmus Darwin's Botanic Garden (1789), and Martyn's Flora Rustica (1792), following the precedent established in the Letters of having each finely etched and carefully hand-coloured plate focusing on a single example of the named flower, often showing the various parts in minute detail. The set of 38 plates was normally issued separately from the book, and an uncoloured set was available of the third edition in 1799. Each plate is signed 'Drawn & Engraved by F.P. Nodder' and dated 'Published 1 May 1788 as the Act directs by B. White & Son', although the typeface varies, showing they were not all published at the same time. The explanatory text that accompanies each plate gives the botanical and common names, and includes references to both the first and second editions. 15th March - end of June 2005. Rare Books Room, Natural History Museum (London)
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NHM GENERAL Copy 1 - Presented by Basil H. Soulsby. 29.v.1930; H. Cork; 3/-.
NHM GENERAL Copy 2 - Fisk & Fitzgerald. 27/7/1978. £19.50.
NHM GENERAL Copy 2 - p. 71 and 72 are transposed. '606' in pencil on front endpaper.
NHM GENERAL Copy 1 - Has been rebound, but pages have not been trimmed.
Rev. Thomas Martyn was a preacher, botanist, professor of botany at Cambridge, popular writer on natural history and an enthusiastic proponent of the Linnaean system of classification. The first edition of his translation and continuation of Rousseau (Letters on the elements of botany, addressed to a lady by the celebrated J. .J. Rousseau, translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the System of Linnaeus) was published in 1785, with a second edition two years later. Both lacked illustrations. This deficiency was remedied the following year, when Martyn was persuaded to embellish the work with explanatory drawings. As he says in the Advertisement at the beginning of this edition, 'Some persons, who have honoured the Letters on the Elements of Botany with their approbation, having signified a wish that the subject might be still farther illustrated by figures, Mr. Nodder, an ingenious artist, has been employed for this purpose'. Frederick Polydore Nodder (fl.1767-1800) was probably of German origin. It is likely that he was the Mr Nodder of Panton Street who submitted several novelty paintings to the Society of Artists in 1774 and exhibited five flower paintings at the Royal Academy between 1786 and 1788. In the exhibition catalogue he was described as 'Draughtsman in Natural History' and as 'Botanic Painter to her Majesty'. Nodder's first major work was Martyn's Letters, and he went on to illustrate Erasmus Darwin's Botanic Garden (1789), and Martyn's Flora Rustica (1792), following the precedent established in the Letters of having each finely etched and carefully hand-coloured plate focusing on a single example of the named flower, often showing the various parts in minute detail. The set of 38 plates was normally issued separately from the book, and an uncoloured set was available of the third edition in 1799. Each plate is signed 'Drawn & Engraved by F.P. Nodder' and dated 'Published 1 May 1788 as the Act directs by B. White & Son', although the typeface varies, showing they were not all published at the same time. The explanatory text that accompanies each plate gives the botanical and common names, and includes references to both the first and second editions. 15th March - end of June 2005. Rare Books Room, Natural History Museum (London)
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