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The Botanical Register: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants in British Gardens.
London: James Ridgway, 1815-1836. Volumes I-XXII only (of 33), 8vo (242 x 155 mm). 1919 hand-colored engraved plates (some folding). Contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt by Backhouse of Wells, Somerset, covers with decorative borders in gilt and blind, spines in five compartments with wide raised bands, the bands highlighted with a gilt rioll, lettered in the second and fourth compartments, the others with repeat decoration in gilt, gilt turn-ins, green scumbled endpapers, marbled edges. Condition : occasional foxing and light offsetting mostly to text; some very slight fading to spines, light rubbing to joints. Provenance : Letitia Sarah Pulsford (wife of the Rev. Charles Pulsford Canon of Bath and Wells, contemporary inscriptions on title pages of the first 14 volumes); Lynn Abbott Trust. a fine set of the first 22 volumes of this important periodical . Edwards was a protegé of William Curtis (1746-1799) and spent many years working as an artist at his Botanical Magazine . In 1815 however, Edwards had a falling-out with William Jackson Hooker, then editor of the Botanical Magazine , which led to Edwards leaving to begin his own rival periodical: The Botanical Register . High quality was assured with the hirings of Benjamin Maund who produced the text and E.D. Smith as the main engraver. After Edwards death in 1819 the publisher, James Ridgway, took over editorial duties until 1829 when they passed to John Lindley. Nissen BBI 2379.