Thornton's Temple of Flora: with plates faithfully reproduced from the original engravings, / and the work described by Geoffrey Grigson ; with bibliographical notes by Handasyde Buchanan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837

Contributor:

Grigson, Geoffrey, 1905-

Buchanan, Handasyde.

Rare Books Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Standardized Title:

Temple of flora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837. Temple of flora.

Thornton, Robert John.

Botany--Pictorial works.

Botany.

Botanical illustration.

Physical Description:

vi, 66 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.), facsims., port. ; 31 cm.

Other Title:

Temple of flora

Place of Publication:

London : Collins, 1972.

Notes:

"It is a smaller version of the edition designed and produced for William Collins by George Rainbird and Ruari McLean in 1951 ..."--T.p. verso.

Includes a reproduction of the t. p. of the original "The temple of flora, or garden of nature" which was first published as the concluding part of the author's "New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus," completed in 1807.

Plates are reproduced from the original 1807 edition.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum also has copy of Thornton's original work (1807).

Athenaeum copy: Bound in red cloth over boards; stamped in gold on front cover and spine; deep purple dust jacket printed in white with front cover multicolored illustration.

ISBN:

000211836X