CURTIS, William. Flora Londinensis: or Plates and Descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the Environs of London . London: for the author and B. White, [1775]-1777-1798.
CURTIS, William. Flora Londinensis: or Plates and Descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the Environs of London . London: for the author and B. White, [1775]-1777-1798. 2 volumes of 6 fascicules, 2° (470 x 298 mm). Engraved vignette on title-page, 432 hand-colored plates after Sydenham Edwards, William Kilburn James Sowerby and others. (Lacking dedication, subscriber’s list, and “A Catalogue of Certain Plants” in vol. I, a few leaves with tears touching letters, a few plates defective or with tears, vol. 2 title-page mounted.) 19th-century half morocco preserving earlier marbled boards (rubbed and worn; library marks in pen on foot of spines). FIRST EDITION , second issue title. Curtis's reputation as a botanist was such that he was made the director of the Society of Apothecaries at the Chelsea Physic Garden in 1772. The following year he established a botanical garden for the cultivation and study of native British plants at Bermondsey in which he cultivated some 6,000 species from all over the world in his garden, including medicinal and culinary herbs, English wild flowers, trees and shrubs. For an annual subscription of a guinea patrons could visit Curtis's garden and attend the lectures he gave there, and for an extra guinea a year they could also have a share in the plants and seeds from the garden. Cleveland Collections 532 (GC copy this copy); Henrey 595; Hunt 650; Nissen BBI 440; Stafleu-Cowan TL2 1286.
CURTIS, William. Flora Londinensis: or Plates and Descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the Environs of London . London: for the author and B. White, [1775]-1777-1798.
CURTIS, William. Flora Londinensis: or Plates and Descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the Environs of London . London: for the author and B. White, [1775]-1777-1798. 2 volumes of 6 fascicules, 2° (470 x 298 mm). Engraved vignette on title-page, 432 hand-colored plates after Sydenham Edwards, William Kilburn James Sowerby and others. (Lacking dedication, subscriber’s list, and “A Catalogue of Certain Plants” in vol. I, a few leaves with tears touching letters, a few plates defective or with tears, vol. 2 title-page mounted.) 19th-century half morocco preserving earlier marbled boards (rubbed and worn; library marks in pen on foot of spines). FIRST EDITION , second issue title. Curtis's reputation as a botanist was such that he was made the director of the Society of Apothecaries at the Chelsea Physic Garden in 1772. The following year he established a botanical garden for the cultivation and study of native British plants at Bermondsey in which he cultivated some 6,000 species from all over the world in his garden, including medicinal and culinary herbs, English wild flowers, trees and shrubs. For an annual subscription of a guinea patrons could visit Curtis's garden and attend the lectures he gave there, and for an extra guinea a year they could also have a share in the plants and seeds from the garden. Cleveland Collections 532 (GC copy this copy); Henrey 595; Hunt 650; Nissen BBI 440; Stafleu-Cowan TL2 1286.
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