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William Curtis (1746-1799) and others
The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed. London: 1790-1788-1896. Volumes 1-122 and General Indexes to... the first fifty-three volumes (London: 1828), bound in 102 volumes, 8° (245 x 150mm). Engraved portraits of William Curtis and David Douglass, 7,517 hand-coloured engraved plates including 829 folding, two double-page, three uncoloured (nos. 120, 903B and 1605B) and a plan (vol. 71). (Several title-pages on inserted guards, occasional variable spotting, offsetting and light browning, occasional dampstaining to edges of some leaves, water-damage affecting title-pages, endpapers or some plates in several volumes, vol. 53 lacking title-page). Near-uniform green half roan, gilt spine (extremities lightly rubbed, occasional small tears or loss to marbled paper, some volumes affected by water damage). Provenance: annotations in brown and black ink throughout; index with additions in pencil in a 19th-century hand; a faint inscription in brown ink on title-page to vol. 41, 'Wm [Gaskill]'.
AN IMPRESSIVE RUN OF ONE OF THE OLDEST SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS OF ITS KIND. The Botanical Magazine, launched by William Curtis in 1787, became a primary source for the study of the history of gardening tastes and methods, and of plant introductions. This, combined with the work of some of the greatest botanical artists, means "the reputation of the magazine has always resided in the accuracy of its portrayal of plants... this pictoral record of garden and greenhouse plants from the temperate and tropical regions of the world has no rival..." (Desmond, p.7). The work was immediately successful, (its publication continuing almost without interruption until 1983), endorsing Curtis's theory that his clients, who refused to buy folio pictures of unassuming plants, would subscribe to an octavo work which pictured showy plants that filled their gardens. Curtis edited the work until his death in 1799 (vols. 1-13) and the editorship of the subsequent volumes in this set was continued in turn by John Sims (1749-1831), William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911). The main artists represented during the first period of editorship, with an emphasis on European and Eastern North American plants, were William Kilburn, James Sowerby and Sydenham Edwards. The majority of the South African species included under Sims's editorship were drawn by Edwards (until 1815), John Curtis and William Herbert. Hunt 689; Nissen BBI 2350; Stafleu & Cowan 1290; Blunt (1994),pp.211-217; Great Flower Books (1990), pp.156-7. See also R. Desmond A celebration of flowers: two hundred years of Curtis's Botanical Magazine [London]: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1987. (102)
The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed. London: 1790-1788-1896. Volumes 1-122 and General Indexes to... the first fifty-three volumes (London: 1828), bound in 102 volumes, 8° (245 x 150mm). Engraved portraits of William Curtis and David Douglass, 7,517 hand-coloured engraved plates including 829 folding, two double-page, three uncoloured (nos. 120, 903B and 1605B) and a plan (vol. 71). (Several title-pages on inserted guards, occasional variable spotting, offsetting and light browning, occasional dampstaining to edges of some leaves, water-damage affecting title-pages, endpapers or some plates in several volumes, vol. 53 lacking title-page). Near-uniform green half roan, gilt spine (extremities lightly rubbed, occasional small tears or loss to marbled paper, some volumes affected by water damage). Provenance: annotations in brown and black ink throughout; index with additions in pencil in a 19th-century hand; a faint inscription in brown ink on title-page to vol. 41, 'Wm [Gaskill]'.
AN IMPRESSIVE RUN OF ONE OF THE OLDEST SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS OF ITS KIND. The Botanical Magazine, launched by William Curtis in 1787, became a primary source for the study of the history of gardening tastes and methods, and of plant introductions. This, combined with the work of some of the greatest botanical artists, means "the reputation of the magazine has always resided in the accuracy of its portrayal of plants... this pictoral record of garden and greenhouse plants from the temperate and tropical regions of the world has no rival..." (Desmond, p.7). The work was immediately successful, (its publication continuing almost without interruption until 1983), endorsing Curtis's theory that his clients, who refused to buy folio pictures of unassuming plants, would subscribe to an octavo work which pictured showy plants that filled their gardens. Curtis edited the work until his death in 1799 (vols. 1-13) and the editorship of the subsequent volumes in this set was continued in turn by John Sims (1749-1831), William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911). The main artists represented during the first period of editorship, with an emphasis on European and Eastern North American plants, were William Kilburn, James Sowerby and Sydenham Edwards. The majority of the South African species included under Sims's editorship were drawn by Edwards (until 1815), John Curtis and William Herbert. Hunt 689; Nissen BBI 2350; Stafleu & Cowan 1290; Blunt (1994),pp.211-217; Great Flower Books (1990), pp.156-7. See also R. Desmond A celebration of flowers: two hundred years of Curtis's Botanical Magazine [London]: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1987. (102)
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