TY  - HOUR
T1  - The Botanical magazine; or, Flower-garden displayedin which the most ornamental foreign plants, ... will be accurately represented in their natural colours. ... A work intended for the use of ... ladies, gentlemen, and gardeners, ...
DA  - M DCC LXXXVII. [1787]-M DCCCI. [1801]
CY  - London :
AU  - Curtis, William,
AU  - Sowerby, James,
AU  - Edwards, Sydenham,
AU  - [Graves, William],
AU  - [Sansom, Francis],
PB  - printed for W[illiam]. Curtis, at his Botanic-Garden, Lambeth-Marsh; and sold by all booksellers, stationers, and news-carriers, in town and country,
PP  - London :
PY  - M DCC LXXXVII. [1787]-M DCCCI. [1801]
N1  - Compiled and edited by William Curtis; his name appears on the title pages of v. 2-14.
N1  - Imprints vary; v. 2-4,"printed by Couchman and Fry, ... for W. Curtis,... and sold by the principal booksellers in Britain and Ireland"; v. 5-14, "printed by Stephen Couchman, for W. Curtis; and sold by the principal booksellers ...".
N1  - Drawings for the plates were made by: James Sowerby, Sydenham Edwards and Francis Sansom; coloring supervised by William Graves; principal engraver for early vols.: Francis Sansom (cf. Henrey).
N1  - The monthly issues in each vol. include three plates, each with facing leaf of letterpress description. Some plates have extended description on more than one leaf.
N1  - Text leaves are bound facing the plates they describe and numbered to correspond to that plate.
N1  - Plates and leaves are numbered consecutively from volume to volume; letterpress leaves are unsigned.
N1  - Illustrates and describes hundreds of flowering plants not native to the British Isles, cultivated in his own gardens by William Curtis. After his death the work was continued by his assistant, John Sims, who was responsible for vols. 15-18 (1801-1803). The series of volumes continued itnto the late 19th century. The plates in the first 14 vols. are remarkable for their quality, detail and natural color.
N1  - Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library.
ID  - 683976
KW  - Botany
KW  - Animal husbandry
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