Medicine, Botany 

(GEN) Early issue with both titles dated 1737. With over half the plates carefully hand colored by a nineteenth-century hand. The colorist seems to have worked from life, coloring plants that they were able to obtain specimens of; for example, Plate 105 is only partially hand-colored. The colorist, working in the spring, has completed the twig with blossom and leaf buds, but forgot or was unable to return to the plate in the summer/autumn to complete the other cutting with the fully formed leaves and fruit.||(REF) Cleveland Collections 386; Dunthorne 42; Great Flower Books p. 50; Hunt 510; Nissen BBI 168; Pritzel 811; Stfleu & Cowan 545; ESTC: 12 copies of this first edition (5 in UK, including British Library)||(PRV) With the pencilled ownership signature of Mary Priest, early nineteenth-century. Insertions in Vol I include a hand-written index list of useful plants and a brief biography of Blackwell. Torn scrap of paper inserted by plate 169. Vol II torn scraps of paper inserted by plates 365 and 436, appearing to be scraps from the same letter||(BIN) Folio. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards (torn), spine gilt-ruled and lettered, black label. 

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