From: British phaenogamous botany; or, figures and descriptions of the genera of British flowering plants by William Baxter.
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Adoxa moschatellina From: British phaenogamous botany; or, figures and descriptions of the genera of British flowering plants by William Baxter. |
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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. |
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Adoxaceae - Adoxa moschatellina From: English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants by James Edward Smith. London, C.E. Sowerby, 1836, 2. edition, volume 3, plate 577. Hand-coloured engraving by James Sowerby (sheet 128 x 218 mm). Slight foxing. Text enclosed in photocopy.
€ 30
"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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