ANDREWS | The Botanist's Repository of New, and Rare plants, 1810 etc.

ANDREWS, HENRY C.

The Botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants. Containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication. London: T. Bensley for the author, 1797–[1815]

FIRST EDITION, 10 volumes, 4to (266 x 202mm), 10 engraved titles (those in volumes 7 and 8 with the numbers supplied in ink), letterpress title to first volume, 664 hand-coloured engraved plates by and after Andrews printed in black or green ink and heightened with gum arabic, 64 folding, contemporary near-uniform English straight-grained green morocco gilt, some light spotting and offsetting, some titles and plates shaved affecting captions or image, spines darkened; sold as a periodical not subject to return

THE HORACE PYM COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO BINDING OF AN IMPORTANT PERIODICAL which highlighted the exotic species which were neglected by periodicals such as Curtis's Botanical Magazine, and was one of a group of four which “made a contribution of lasting importance to the literature of botany and horticulture by providing records and means of identification of a great diversity of beautiful and interesting plants, many of them new to science” (Hunt).