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Temple of Flora, or, Garden of the botanist, poet, painter, and philosopher / [Doctor Thornton].

Accession number
PML 151342
Creator
Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
Published
[London : Dr. Thornton, 1812]
Credit line
Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
The col. plates are hand-colored aquatints and mezzotints.
28 coloured plates and frontispiece, and 2 other engravings uncoloured, engraved t.p. and half t.p.
The t.p. is engraved and on 2 successive leaves.
Most of the 31 plates are dated, with dates from Jul. 1, 1811, to Jan. 1, 1812 (one plate is dated Jan. 1, 1811, perhaps an engraving error for 1812).
Description
[155] p. : 31 ill. (29 col.) ; 40 cm
Provenance
Mildred Bliss bookplate. From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Contemporary straight-grained morocco.
Classification
Department