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Onagraceae - Epilobium angustifolium From: English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants by James Edward Smith. London, C.E. Sowerby, 1836, 2. edition, volume 3 (plate 542). Hand-coloured engraving by James Sowerby (sheet 128 x 218 mm). Text enclosed in photocopy. € 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). The
plates of the second or small edition of 12 volumes are mostly restrikes of the
plates of the first edition, arranged in sytematic order and including
supplementary plates. Most of the plates thus bear a double enumeration and are
often not so fully coloured as those of the first edition. James Sowerby was the
first of several members of this family who became noted as authors and
illustrators of books on natural history.* Nissen BBI 2225; Great flower books p. 76; Henrey 1369; Stafleu & Cowan 12.221.
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