CURTIS (WILLIAM) Flora Londinensis: or, Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, 2 vol. in 6 original parts
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CURTIS (WILLIAM) Flora Londinensis: or, Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, 2 vol. in 6 original parts
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CURTIS (WILLIAM) Flora Londinensis: or, Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, 2 vol. in 6 original parts
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CURTIS (WILLIAM)
Flora Londinensis: or, Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, 2 vol. in 6 original parts, first edition, 2 titles with engraved vignettes and 432 hand-coloured engraved plates by W. Darton, J. Sowerby and others after Sydenham Edwards, Will Kilburn and J. Sowerby, list of subscribers, occasional spotting, contemporary tree calf gilt, roll-tool borders on sides, gilt panelled spines with red and green morocco labels [Great Flower Books, p.54; Henrey III, 595; Hunt 650; Nissen BBI 439], folio (470mm. x 290mm.), by the Author, 1777-1798

Footnotes

  • A HANDSOMELY BOUND SET of "this splendid, complicated, basic English Flora" (Hunt). See illustration overleaf.

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  • One plate in volume 2 has a narrow strip torn from the blank margin.
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