Beschreibung:

Thornton (Robert John) Picturesque Botanical Plates of the New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus, engraved title and dedication by Vincent after Tomkins, 20 only mezzotint and/or aquatint plates printed in colours and hand-coloured by Ward, Earlom, Dunkarton and others, after Abraham Pether Philip Reinagle Sydenham Edward and others, some heightened with gum arabic, comprising: (1) "Tulips"; (2) "The Superb Lily"; (3) "The Aloe"; (4) "The Night Blowing Cereus"; (5) "The White Lily"; (6) "The Oblique-Leaved Begonia"; (7) "The American Cowslip"; (8) "Hyacinths"; (9) "The Dragon Arum"; (10) "The Winged Passion-Flower"; (11) "The Quadrangular Passion-Flower"; (12) "The Blue Passion-Flower"; (13) "The Pontic Rhododendron"; (14) "The Maggot-Bearing Stapelia"; (15) "Large Flowering Sensitive Plant"; (16) "The Nodding Renealmia"; (17) "The China Limodoron"; (18) "A Group of Auriculas"; (19) "A Group of Carnations"; (20) "Pitcher Plant", lacks frontispiece, contents leaf and "Select Plants" leaf, and some letterpress, some foxing, browning and offsetting, new endpapers, contemporary half calf, gilt, slightly rubbed, corners bumped, morocco label on spine, [cf.: Cleveland Collections 722; Dunthorne 301; Great Flower Books p.143; Nissen BBI 1955; Stafleu and Cowan 14283], folio, 1799; sold not subject to return. ⁂ Part only of what was to become known as "The Temple of Flora".