An Encyclopaedia of Plants; Comprising the Specific Character, Description, Culture, History, Application in the Arts, And Every Other Desirable Particular Respecting All The Plants Indigenous, Cultivated In, Or Introduced To Britain

An abundantly illustrated nineteenth century comprehensive encyclopaedia of plants. A very scarce work.Edited by John Claudius Loudon, a Scottishbotanist,garden designerandauthor,born inCambuslang in 1782. Loudon was the first to use the term arboretumin writing to refer to a garden of plants, especially trees, collected for the purpose of scientific study.An enclycopaedia of plants, Combining much of the information contained in a species plantarum, a historia plantarum, a grammar of botany, and a dictionary of botany and vegetable culture.With figures of nearly ten thousand species and supplements.Illustrated abundantly throughout, with drawings by J.D.C. Sowerrby, and engravings by R. and R.E. Branston.In publisher's original green cloth binding. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Bumping to extremities, with cloth splitting to the head of the spine. Rubbing with small loss to joints. Inscription to spine. Odd mark to boards, most significant to the rear. Library stamp and bookseller's sticker to front paste down. Library of Shrewsbury bookplate, ink inscription, and stamp to front free endpaper. Binder's sticker to rear paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Stamp to title page. Good.…