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Printed and Sold by William Phillips, George Yard, Lombard Street. 1803-1804-1805. 3 volumes. 8vo.. pp. (iv), 131, (i) blank. Aquatint portrait frontispiece, 48 hand-coloured engraved plates (adjacent to plate XXI there is an interpolated plate of a Rose, engraved and hand-coloured, published by Curtis, dated 1788, without the signature of either Sydenham Edwards, artist, or F. Sansom, engraver, without an explanatory text leaf); (iv), 114, (i) Directions to Binder, (i) blank. 48 hand-coloured engraved plates; (i) Title, (i) Advertisement, 63, (i) blank. 24 hand-coloured engraved plates. TOTAL plates : 120. All plates have an explanatory unpaginated text leaf. Contemporary marbled boards now very rubbed, all volumes rebacked, corners repaired, scattered foxing and occasional marginal mark, signature of JOHN ROYLE at the top margin of the title-pages [see NOTES below]. *William Curtis '... was obliged to superintend the Garden and Library at Chelsea and to encourage the knowledge of botany.… Leer más