Prickly Poppy, Common Asparagus, Starwort, Fox-tail Milk-Vetch engraving, c1816.

by Green, Thomas

Argemone (Mexican Prickly Poppy), Asparagus (Common Asparagus), Aster (Virginian Starwort), Astragalus (Taller Fox-Tail Milk-Vetch), antique print.

Fine original stippled copperplate engraving from Green’s Universal Herbal. This engraving for The Universal Herbal or, Botanical, Medical and Agricultural Dictionary by Thomas Green was published by Nuttall, Fisher & Dixon, Liverpool, England in 1816 (later hand-colour).

This extensive work contained all the known plants in the World, arranged according to the Linnaean system, and specified the Uses to which they are or may be applied, whether as Food, as Medicine, or in the Arts and Manufacture. The copperplate engravings produced for this work were from some of the finest detailed drawings done on botanical specimens during this period.

As usual, price reflects condition. Page size is 25 x 21cm (10 x 8.5 inches).