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Hypericum calycinum From: English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants by James Edward Smith. London, R. Taylor, J. Sowerby, etc., 1809, volume 29 (plate 2017). Hand-coloured engraving by James Sowerby (sheet 145 x 237 mm). Text enclosed.
€ 55
"One of
the most celebrated of all British floras is Sowerby’s English botany.
This periodical publication, issued in 267 numbers, and published in
thirty-six volumes between 1790 and 1814, contains 2,592 beautifully
coloured illustrations of plants most of which are drawn and engraved by
James Sowerby. The plates are accompanied by descriptive letterpress written
by the eminent botanist James Edward Smith, …" (Henrey II p. 141). James
Sowerby, who was the first of several members of this family who became
noted as authors and illustrators of books on natural history, lived from
1757-1822. He studied painting at the Royal Academy, and soon turned to
botanical illustration. His first work was for William Curtis’s Flora
londinensis and his Botanical magazine. * Pritzel 8789; Dunthorne 291; Blunt pp. 190-192; Nissen BBI 2225; Great flower books p. 76; Hunt 717; Henrey 1366; Stafleu & Cowan 12.221. www.meemelink.com | index | Clusiaceae |