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Hypericum quadrangulum From: Flora londinensis by William Curtis. London, the author, [1775-] 1777-1798, (plate 231). Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 280 x 465; impression 234 x 435 mm; light marginal spot; under passe-partout). Text enclosed.
€ 130
"Though William Curtis was not one
of the great scientists, his name is writ large in English botany. Trained as an
apothecary, he turned to gardening and then the description and illustration of
plants. In his Flora londinensis he presented an impressive record of
wildflowers growing within ten miles of London, including many no longer found
there; and in his Botanical Magazine (1786 to date) he offered those
exotics which Englishmen were pleased to grow in their gardens. … this splendid,
complicated, basic English flora …" (Hunt). Most of the plates are unsigned, but
the artists involved were James Sowerby, Sydenham Teast Edwards and William
Kilburn.* Pritzel 2004; Dunthorne 87; Blunt p. 185; Nissen BBI 439; Great flower books p. 54; Hunt 650; Henrey 595; Stafleu & Cowan 1286. www.meemelink.com | index | Clusiaceae |