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SOWERBY, John E. and C. Pierpoint Johnson. British Wild Flowers. Illustrated by... Described and With an Introduction and a Key to the Natural Orders, By C. Pierpoint Johnson. Re-Issue: To Which is Now Added A Supplement Containing 180 Figures of Lately Discovered Flowering Plants by John W. Salter and the Ferns, Horsetails, and Club-Mosses by John E. Sowerby.
London: John Van Voorst, 1876. A later issue of this classic work on British wild flowers first published 1858-1860. Tall thick 8vo., (25cm x 16cm), recently rebound in full brown panelled calf, raised bands, gilt compartments, leather spine label (after the period), l, (2), 186pp. text. With a hand-coloured frontispiece, 89 hand-coloured plates, and two uncoloured plates (as called for), showing 1780 botanical specimens. Offsetting to title, a couple of marginal spots, but in fact an about fine copy in an attractive binding.
John Edward Sowerby [1825-1870] British botanical illustrator and publisher born in Lambeth, London. John inherited a taste for botanical drawing, and in 1841 produced his first work—the plates for his father's (Charles Edward) Illustrated Catalogue of British Plants. His life was mainly spent in illustrating botanical works, in collaboration with Charles Johnson (1791–1880), and Charles Pierpoint Johnson, who contributed the text.
$975
SOWERBY, John E. and C. Pierpoint Johnson. British Wild Flowers. Illustrated by... Described and With an Introduction and a Key to the Natural Orders, By C. Pierpoint Johnson. Re-Issue: To Which is Now Added A Supplement Containing 180 Figures of Lately Discovered Flowering Plants by John W. Salter and the Ferns, Horsetails, and Club-Mosses by John E. Sowerby. London: John Van Voorst, 1876. A later issue of this classic work on British wild flowers first published 1858-1860. Tall thick 8vo., (25cm x 16cm), recently rebound in full brown panelled calf, raised bands, gilt compartments, leather spine label (after the period), l, (2), 186pp. text. With a hand-coloured frontispiece, 89 hand-coloured plates, and two uncoloured plates (as called for), showing 1780 botanical specimens. Offsetting to title, a couple of marginal spots, but in fact an about fine copy in an attractive binding.
John Edward Sowerby [1825-1870] British botanical illustrator and publisher born in Lambeth, London. John inherited a taste for botanical drawing, and in 1841 produced his first work—the plates for his father's (Charles Edward) Illustrated Catalogue of British Plants. His life was mainly spent in illustrating botanical works, in collaboration with Charles Johnson (1791–1880), and Charles Pierpoint Johnson, who contributed the text.
$975
