| Portion of title |
English botany |
| Portion of title |
Coloured figures of British plants, with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth |
| Spine title |
Sowerby's English botany |
| Local note | Joyner Rare copy includes volume XIV (14) only. Also includes handwritten title page with a printed catalog description of the volumes pasted onto handwritten title page. Bookplate on front pastedown includes armorial crest of the Watkins family with the motto "Flyddlawn Bunydd" acroos the top, numbered "no. XIV", Boston, 1883, with the words [CasT ET?] at bottom of plate. |
| General note | "[Sir James Edward] Smith wrote the descriptions, except those for pls. 16-18 by George Shaw, but his name does not appear on the first three titles [i.e. title pages]." Cf. Hunt |
| General note | Originally issued in 267 numbers (cf. Henrey). |
| General note | Dates vary: v. 1: 1790; v. 2: 1793; v. 3: 1794; v. 4:1795; v. 5: 1796; v. 6: 1797; v. 7: 1798; v. 8 & 9: 1799; v. 10 & 11: 1800; v. 12 & 13: 1801; v. 14 & 15: 1802; v. 16 & 17:1803; v. 18 & 19: 1804; v. 20 & 21: 1805; v. 22 & 23: 1806; v. 24 & 25: 1807; v. 26 & 27: 1808; v. 28 & 29: 1809; v. 30 & 31: 1810; v. 32: 1811; v. 33 & 34: 1812; v. 35: 1813; v. 36: 1814. |
| General note | Hand-colored engravings. |
| General note | Includes errata. |
| With note | With: General indexes to the thirty-six volumes of English Botany; to which is added an alphabetical index to English fungi / James Sowerby. Lambeth : J. Sowerby, 1814. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| References |
English short title catalogue T147671 |
| References |
Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit. 1366 |
| References |
Hunt botanical cat. 717 |
| References |
Pritzel 8789-8790 |
| References |
Jackson, p. 233 |
| References |
Johnston, S.H. Cleveland collections, 601 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Sowerby, James, 1757-1822. English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants, with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth. London : Printed for the author, by J. Davis, and sold ... by messrs. White ... Johnson ... Dilly ... and by all Booksellers, &c. ..., 1790-1814 |
| Genre/form | Early works. |
| Genre/form | Illustrated works. |
| LCCN | 05019914 |
