Botanical, Hill Sir John, Swans Neck Bryum, The Vegetable System, London: 1770-1775.

HILL, Sir John Swan Neck Bryum,The Vegetable System. Or, The Internal Structure, and the Life of Plants. London: the author, 1770-1775.

Date: 1770- 1775

Artist: Hill John

Paper Size: 280 x 470mm

Condition: Margin discoloration outside image area and general age toning. Edges show some chipping and some papers display cockling. Will not be visible once matted and framed 

Technique: Copperplate engraving

Price: $350

Description: Original, hand coloured copperplate engraving

Provenance:

HILL, Sir John (c. 1714-1775). The Vegetable System Or, The Internal Structure, and the Life of Plants. London: the author, 1770-1775.

26 volumes in 13, 2° (448 x 284mm). 1,544 (of 1,545 or 1,546) engraved plates. 

Some plate numbers corrected in the manuscript by an early hand -- Sir Edward William Watkin, first Baronet (1819-1901, bookplates and gilt crests) -- Baron Dickinson Webster (1818-1860, bookplates).

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