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Pteridophyta - Equisetum palustre From: English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants by James Edward Smith. London, R. Taylor, J. Sowerby, etc., 1809, volume 29 (plate 2021). Hand-coloured engraving by James Sowerby (sheet 145 x 237 mm). Text enclosed. Slight foxing.
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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 · Equisetaceae |