Discounted: Flora Londinensis. Convolvulus arvensis. Pretty pink-flowered vine c1822.

by Flora Londinensis

Elegant larger horizontal botanical antique print, with dissections. 

In 1775 William Curtis (1746-1799 was Praefectus Hortis of Chelsea Physic Garden in London when he began publication of Flora Londinensis with life-size illustrations of plants that grew wild within a ten-mile radius of London. Despite the financial assistance of John Stuart, Earl of Bute (who financed the laying out Kew Gardens), William Curtis was almost ruined financially from his most ambitious project. The first plates were published in 1777, the same year that he resigned from Chelsea Physic Garden. Despite praise for his work, ten years later by the time he published his second volume, he was almost bankrupt.

Flora Londinensis.. plants indigenous to Great Britain, illustrated by figures of the natural size, by the late William Curtis. A New edition Edited by George Graves and William Jackson Hooker, was published between 1817 and 1828 by editor and botanical artist, George Graves F.L.S. (1784-1839), and eminent Scottish botanist, William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), who had been appointed horticultural director at Kew after Curtis resigned. This lovely botanical engraving was published on paper watermarked "J. Whatman 1822". 

There is a repaired hole at bottom left of image and a couple of other weak-paper points (hence the price reduction). Page size is 285 x 470mm (11 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches).