[Rarebooks] FS: THE BOTANIST'S REPOSITORY, 1803-1815, with 375 Beautiful Hand-Colored Engravings

[Charles Agvent]

ANDREWS, Henry C. [Hand-Colored Plates] THE BOTANIST'S REPOSITORY, FOR 
NEW, AND RARE PLANTS. CONTAINING COLOURED FIGURES OF SUCH PLANTS, AS 
HAVE NOT HITHERTO APPEARED IN ANY SIMILAR PUBLICATION... [London]: [T. 
Bensley for the author], [1803-1815]. First Edition. Five (of 10) large 
quarto (8-5/8" x 11-1/8") volumes bound in half brown morocco with 
marbled boards and matching morocco corners, gilt-lettered spines; 
marbled endpapers. Volumes 5 - 10 of a ten-volume set. The letterpress 
title page giving publication information is usually found only in the 
first volume and is not present here, but all engraved title pages in 
each of the 6 volumes here are present as are the indices at the end of 
each volume. Illustrated with 375 engraved plates, some printed in 
colors and all lushly hand-colored, of which 60 are folding or double. 
The complete set had 664 plates with 64 folding/double, so nearly all of 
the folding/double plates are in these volumes. Started as a rival to 
Curtis's THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, this magazine featured more new plants 
than its rival and larger and generally better quality plates. It also 
differed in making a contribution of lasting importance to the 
literature of botany and horticulture by providing records and means of 
identification of a great diversity of beautiful and interesting plants, 
many of them new to science. The text of the fifth volume is by John 
Kennedy (the author's father-in-law), the sixth volume by A. H. Haworth, 
and the last four volumes by George Jackson. DUNTHORNE 8: "A fine and 
interesting work of distinct individuality and character"; GREAT FLOWER 
BOOKS, page 83; NISSEN 2382; PRITZEL 474. Truly magnificent hand-colored 
plates and quite scarce. Fairly large copy in comparison to others sold 
in the recent past. Occasional minor foxing, toning, or off-setting; 
some light pencil notes/corrections to some leaves. In all, rather clean 
and attractive examples of these volumes with the plates generally 
bright and vivid with offsetting to text. Rubbing and light scuffs to 
bindings. Near Fine.

A beautifully illustrated and important horticulture title providing 
records and means of identification of a great diversity of beautiful 
and interesting plants, many of them from Australia and South Africa and 
many new to science. (#020180)        $12,500

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