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Zingiberaceae - Hedychium gardnerianum From: The botanical register by Sydenham Teast Edwards and others. London, James Ridgeway, 1824, volume 10, plate 774A-B. Hand-coloured engraving by S. Watts after M. Hart (sheet 225 x 272 mm) and plain engraved plate (155 x 250 mm). Text enclosed. € 100
Sydenham Teast Edwards was a botanical artist who worked for
27 years for Curtis’s Botanical magazine. In 1815 he started the rival
The botanical register; consisting of coloured figures of exotic plants,
cultivated in British gardens; with their history and mode of treatment. The
text for the first 14 years is by John Bellenden Ker and the volumes 15-33 by
John Lindley as Edward’s botanical register. The principal illustrators
were Edwards himself, M. Hart and Miss Drake and the engravers Sansom, Smith, S.
Watts, White and G. Barclay.* Pritzel 2621; Dunthorne 108; Nissen BBI 2379; Great flower books p. 84; Stafleu & Cowan 1625; Johnston 784. |
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