Accession number
PML 37734
Published
London, 1730.
Notes
Paged irregularly, ix-x repeated.
Remainder of t.p.: To which are added the characters of the genus and an enumeration of all the particular species which are at present to be found in the several nurseries near London, with directions for the proper soil and situation, in which each particular kind is found to thrive. Part 1.
Added title: Catalogus, arborum, fruticumque, etc. or, a catalogue of trees and shrubs, both exotic and domestic, which are hardy enough to bear the cold of our climate in the open air, ranged in an alphabetical order, according to their most approved Latin names. With an index of the English names referring to the Latin.
21 engraved plates (20 col.) by Henry Fletcher and E. Kirkall, after Jacob van Huysum. One of the earliest flower books to contain plates printed in color; one third of the plates are in mezzotint, the remaining engraved and hand-colored in the usual way.
It is generally assumed that one of the members of the Society of Gardeners, Philip Miller was responsible for the text.
Frontispiece depicting an English formal garden, engr. by Henry Fletcher, London, 1729.
Part I all that was published. The title-page reads: Catalogus, Arborum, Fruticumque, &c. or, A catalogue of trees and shrubs, both exotic and domestic, which are hardy enough to bear the cold of our climate in the open air. Ranged in an alphabetical order, according to their most approved Latin names. With an index of the English names referring to the Latin. Part I. London, Printed for the Society of Gardeners, n.d.
The only ed. (DNB, XXXVII, 420).
Of the 21 plates nos. 18 and 20 are missing.
The dedication to Thomas, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery with his coat of arms engr. by Henry Fletcher.
Plate 1 unsigned, hand coloured.
Plates 2, 9, 11 and 16 mezzotints printed in colour by E. Kirkall after Jan van Huysum. Accoriding to Dunthorne "Flower and Fruit Prints" no. 119 plate no. 3 depicting the double nasturtium is also engraved by Kirkall; it is unsigned here.
Plates 4-8, 10, 12-15, 17, 19 and 21 mezzotints printed in colour by Henry Fletcher after Van Huysum.
Remainder of t.p.: To which are added the characters of the genus and an enumeration of all the particular species which are at present to be found in the several nurseries near London, with directions for the proper soil and situation, in which each particular kind is found to thrive. Part 1.
Added title: Catalogus, arborum, fruticumque, etc. or, a catalogue of trees and shrubs, both exotic and domestic, which are hardy enough to bear the cold of our climate in the open air, ranged in an alphabetical order, according to their most approved Latin names. With an index of the English names referring to the Latin.
21 engraved plates (20 col.) by Henry Fletcher and E. Kirkall, after Jacob van Huysum. One of the earliest flower books to contain plates printed in color; one third of the plates are in mezzotint, the remaining engraved and hand-colored in the usual way.
It is generally assumed that one of the members of the Society of Gardeners, Philip Miller was responsible for the text.
Frontispiece depicting an English formal garden, engr. by Henry Fletcher, London, 1729.
Part I all that was published. The title-page reads: Catalogus, Arborum, Fruticumque, &c. or, A catalogue of trees and shrubs, both exotic and domestic, which are hardy enough to bear the cold of our climate in the open air. Ranged in an alphabetical order, according to their most approved Latin names. With an index of the English names referring to the Latin. Part I. London, Printed for the Society of Gardeners, n.d.
The only ed. (DNB, XXXVII, 420).
Of the 21 plates nos. 18 and 20 are missing.
The dedication to Thomas, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery with his coat of arms engr. by Henry Fletcher.
Plate 1 unsigned, hand coloured.
Plates 2, 9, 11 and 16 mezzotints printed in colour by E. Kirkall after Jan van Huysum. Accoriding to Dunthorne "Flower and Fruit Prints" no. 119 plate no. 3 depicting the double nasturtium is also engraved by Kirkall; it is unsigned here.
Plates 4-8, 10, 12-15, 17, 19 and 21 mezzotints printed in colour by Henry Fletcher after Van Huysum.
Description
xii [i.e., 14], 90 p. : ill., 21 col. plates ; 47 cm
Provenance
With the book-plate of the Duke of Buccleuch.
Binding
Original sprinkled calf.
Classification
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