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ANDREWS, Henry Charles (fl.1794-1830). ...The Bota

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[N.p. but London: n.d. but circa1797-1815]. Volume IV only (of 10), 4to (263 x 205 mm). Engraved title, 72 hand-coloured engraved plates by and after Andrews printed in black or green ink and heightened with gum arabic (1 folding). Contemporary tree calf gilt, pink-stained endpapers. Condition: some variable light spotting and offsetting, some plates shaved affecting captions or image; joints split, covers almost detached, extremities rubbed, spine chipped. Provenance: John W. Perry Watlington (armorial bookplate); Lynn Abbott Trust. . a good representative volume from a periodical that eventually extended to 10 volumes containing over 600 plates. It enjoyed contemporary sucess and 'made a contribution of lasting importance to the literature of botany and horticulture by providing records and means of identification of a great diversity of beautiful and interesting plants, many of them new to science' (Hunt II, p cxiii). The descriptions were written by Andrews' father-in-law, the nurseryman John Kennedy. Cf. Arnold Arboretum p.38; cf. Cleveland Collections 641; cf. Dunthorne 8; cf. Great Flower Books (1990) p.155; cf. Nissen BBI 2382; cf. Pritzel 174; cf. Stafleu & Cowan 135.

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