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Euphorbiaceae - Euphorbia exigua From: Flora londinensis by William Curtis. London, the author, [1775-] 1777-1798. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 324 x 505; impression 134 x 230 mm). Text missing. € 100
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.
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