An arrangement of British plants : according to the latest improvements of the Linnaean system, to which is prefixed, an easy introduction to the study of botany : illustrated by copper plates / by William Withering

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Notes: "Price 1l. 12s. in boards"--Half-title.; "Directions for placing the plates"--page 418, volume 4.; Publisher's advertisement: last leaf of volume 4.; Volume 1: xii, 402 pages; volume 2: [4], 512 pages; vol. 3: [4], 513-920 pages; volume 4: [4], 418, [2] pages.; Errata to the 4 volumes: pages 404-405.; Henrey, B. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800, 1508; SCNHRB copy (39088007051469, 39088007051527, 39088006346886, 39088006346894) imperfect: lacking plates 2, 20-27, 29 and 30.; SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Library of A.S. Hitchcock and Agnes Chase.; SCNHRB copy has partially obscured ink inscription on title page to volume 1 (R.J.W. Taylor from T... [?]). Occasional manuscript notes and markings to text and back endpaper to volume 3. Plate as frontispiece to volume 4 hand-colored.; SCNHRB copy bound in green library buckram, title in gilt on spine.

author: Withering, William 1741-1799
printer: Swinney, Myles
former owner: Hitchcock, A. S (Albert Spear) 1865-1935 DSI; Chase, Agnes 1869-1963 DSI
bookseller: G. G. and J. Robinson (Paternoster Row, London, England); B. and J. White

Physical description: 4 volumes, XXXI leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 23 cm (8vo)