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The Botanic Garden, Lambeth-Marsh: Published by the author, 1788. Octavo, pp 33,(i) + eight hand coloured engraved plates with slight age-toning, the last twoplates with slight foxing also, each plate has a descriptive explantikon page opposite, twentieth century boards with cloth spine, the upper cover a little faded but otherwise very good. RARE. [Designed to illustrat a series of public lectures given by Curtis at his Botanic Garden, only two parts, each of four plates, were ever published. The garden was in Lambeth Marsh, near to what is now Waterloo Station.]]. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Good.

Printed and Sold by William Phillips, George Yard, Lombard Street. 1803-1804-1805. 3 volumes. 8vo.. pp. (iv), 131, (i) blank. Aquatint portrait frontispiece, 48 hand-coloured engraved plates (adjacent to plate XXI there is an interpolated plate of a Rose, engraved and hand-coloured, published by Curtis, dated 1788, without the signature of either Sydenham Edwards, artist, or F. Sansom, engraver, without an explanatory text leaf); (iv), 114, (i) Directions to Binder, (i) blank. 48 hand-coloured engraved plates; (i) Title, (i) Advertisement, 63, (i) blank. 24 hand-coloured engraved plates. TOTAL plates : 120. All plates have an explanatory unpaginated text leaf. Contemporary marbled boards now very rubbed, all volumes rebacked, corners repaired, scattered foxing and occasional marginal mark, signature of JOHN ROYLE at the top margin of the title-pages [see NOTES below]. *William Curtis '... was obliged to superintend the Garden and Library at Chelsea and to encourage the knowledge of botany.… Read More