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Adoxaceae - Adoxa moschatellina From: British phaenogamous botany; or, figures and descriptions of the genera of British flowering plants by William Baxter. Oxford, author, J.H. Parker; Whittaker, Treacher, 1834, volume 1, plate 42. Hand-coloured engraving by Isaac Russell (sheet 132 x 218 mm). Text enclosed in photocopy. € 35
For his work
on the British flora, an attractive and, in the main, well-illustrated book, he
employed the services of two local artists - Isaac Russell (an Oxford glass
painter) and C. Matthews. Though these men were not trained scientists, they
acquired by degrees a good working knowledge of botany; many of the plates -
which were coloured by Baxter’s daughters and daughter-in-law - are superior to
those in Sowerby (Blunt, p. 213).* Pritzel 524; Blunt p. 213; Great flower books p. 49; Nissen BBI 107; Stafleu & Cowan 374. www.meemelink.com · index · Adoxaceae |