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Botanical magazine; or, Flower-garden displayed
in which the most ornamental foreign plants, ... will be accurately represented in their natural colours. ... A work intended for the use of ... ladies, gentlemen, and gardeners
1 online resource (volume, 504 colored plates, interleaved)
Compiled and edited by William Curtis; his name appears on the title pages of volume 2-14.
Imprints vary; volume 2-4,"printed by Couchman and Fry, ... for W. Curtis,... and sold by the principal booksellers in Britain and Ireland"; volumes 5-14, "printed by Stephen Couchman, for W. Curtis; and sold by the principal booksellers ...".
Drawings for the plates were made by: James Sowerby, Sydenham Edwards and Francis Sansom; coloring supervised by William Graves; principal engraver for early volumes: Francis Sansom (compare Henrey).
The monthly issues in each volume include three plates, each with facing leaf of letterpress description. Some plates have extended description on more than one leaf.
Text leaves are bound facing the plates they describe and numbered to correspond to that plate.
Plates and leaves are numbered consecutively from volume to volume; letterpress leaves are unsigned.
Illustrates and describes hundreds of flowering plants not native to the British Isles, cultivated in his own gardens by William Curtis. After his death the work was continued by his assistant, John Sims, who was responsible for volumes 15-18 (1801-1803). The series of volumes continued itnto the late 19th century. The plates in the first 14 volumes are remarkable for their quality, detail and natural color.
Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library.
Volumes lack chronological designation; dated from imprints.
Text of each volume is approximately foliated, except where extended description of a plant requires an additional leaf; in such a case that leaf is unnumbered; prefatory material and index leaves are also unnumbered.
Plant names in Latin and English in each volume.
Vols. 1-10 have cumulative index to English names, and classified index according to the system of Linnaeus.
Tonks, E. General index to the Latin names and synonyms of the plants depicted in volume 1-107 (London: 1883).
Collects monthly issues of: The Botanical magazine.
Early volumes reprinted by "Fry and Couchman" from 1787-<1790>; and by Stephen Couchman in 1790 and 1793, to meet popular demand. Most extant library sets include various printings.
Curtis's Botanical magazine, or Flower garden displayed