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CURTIS, William (1746-1799). The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed, London: Stephen Couchman for William Curtis, 1793-1829.
56 parts in 35 volumes plus index volume, 8° (230 x 135mm.), engraved portrait frontispiece by F. Sansom in index, circa 2955 engraved plates, all but one hand-coloured and some duplicates by William Curtis after Sydenham Edwards, James Sowerby and others (lacking plates 691-2, 867, 927, 929, 1076, 1078, 1084, 1086, 1101, 1249, 1288, 1294, 1480, 1484, 1494 and 1499, occasional light spotting and offsetting, a few plates with a small marginal wormhole, some plates bound out-of-sequence), contemporary half calf, some spines with lettering pieces, last volume bound in vellum (rubbed and scuffed).
Curtis's Botanical Magazine is the "oldest current scientific periodical of its kind with coloured illustrations in the world ... in the beauty of production and high standard of its contributions it can claim a unique place" (Patrick Synge, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (1948), 73: pp. 5-6). In 1984 it was incorporated into a new enlarged publication entitled The Kew Magazine. Henrey 473; Nissen BBI 2350; Pritzel 2007; Stafleu TL2 1290. Sold as a periodical, not subject to return. (36)
56 parts in 35 volumes plus index volume, 8° (230 x 135mm.), engraved portrait frontispiece by F. Sansom in index, circa 2955 engraved plates, all but one hand-coloured and some duplicates by William Curtis after Sydenham Edwards, James Sowerby and others (lacking plates 691-2, 867, 927, 929, 1076, 1078, 1084, 1086, 1101, 1249, 1288, 1294, 1480, 1484, 1494 and 1499, occasional light spotting and offsetting, a few plates with a small marginal wormhole, some plates bound out-of-sequence), contemporary half calf, some spines with lettering pieces, last volume bound in vellum (rubbed and scuffed).
Curtis's Botanical Magazine is the "oldest current scientific periodical of its kind with coloured illustrations in the world ... in the beauty of production and high standard of its contributions it can claim a unique place" (Patrick Synge, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (1948), 73: pp. 5-6). In 1984 it was incorporated into a new enlarged publication entitled The Kew Magazine. Henrey 473; Nissen BBI 2350; Pritzel 2007; Stafleu TL2 1290. Sold as a periodical, not subject to return. (36)
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