English Botany

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English Botany (1790)
by James Edward Smith and Phoebe Lankester, illustrated by James Sowerby, James de Carle Sowerby, John William Salter and John Edward Sowerby, edited by John T. Boswell Syme
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"English Botany was a major publication of British plants, an enormous set of volumes that was issued beteween 1790 and 1813. The brief but formal descriptions were supplied by the founder of the Linnean Society, James Edward Smith, and published and illustrated by the botanical illustrator and natural historian James Sowerby."

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  • First Edition (1790-1814); 36 volumes, 2592 plates, published in order of plate number
  • Second Edition (1831-1846); 12 volumes, plates republished in systematic order, with some supplementary plates
  • Third Edition (1863-1872); plates in systematic order, with extensive textual discussion on systematics
  • Third Edition Reprint (1873-1886)

See also Exotic Botany

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