SOWERBY, JOHN EDWARD.

English Botany; or Coloured Figures of British Plants. Edited by John T. Boswell Syme. The Popular Portion by Mrs. Lankester. The Figures by J. Sowerby, J. de C. Sowerby, J.W. Salter. Third Edition. Enlarged, re-arranged according to Natural Orders, and entirely revised with Descriptions of all the Species by the Author. Vol. 1-11 (of 13).

London, Robert Hardwicke, 1863-72.

Small 4to. Bound in 11 original full cloth, richly gilt. All edges gilt. Extremities a rubbed, covers on a few volumes dampstained at edges and corners with a bit of loss of the margins of boards. Marginal browning, but plates overall in fine, clean condition. Containing 1840 handcoloured plates in lithography.

Sitwell p. 140. Third edition, where the last two volumes were published much later (vol. 12 + Supplementvol.).

Order-nr.: 29036