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Poaceae - Deschampsia alpina - Aira
laevigata From: English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants by James Edward Smith. London, R. Taylor, J. Sowerby, etc., 1810, volume 30 (plate 2102). Hand-coloured engraving by James Sowerby (sheet 145 x 237 mm; impression 86 x 173 mm). Text enclosed. € 35
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. |
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