Search Results: observations on the structure of fruits by lindley john

John Harding and Wilkin & Youngmans, 1819. Hardcover. Good. John Harding and Wilkin and Youngmans; London, 1819. Hardcover. Ex-Library of Franklin Society. A Good, discolored boards, new brown cloth spine with paper label on spine, new endpapers and pastedowns, original text block with moderate age spotting/foxing throughout, deckle text block edges, age toning to pages, abrasions along board edges, ink discarded stamp front endpaper and ink Franklin Society stamp on title page, text block is sturdy, without Dust wrapper. A good and overall clean copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches], 108pp., indexed, b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.

London & Norwich: John Harding; Wilkin & Youngman, 1819. First and only edition, illustrated with six engraved plates drawn by the author, slim octavo, pp xx, 100, a little foxing, marking and age-toning, but overall very sound internally, original boards, a later (but still early) cloth spine, unlettered, the binding again slightly worn but sound. With the book label of the physician and botanist Thomas Bell Salter. [Of the utmost rarity. At the age of 19 Lindley was taken under the wing of William Jackson Hooker who, at that time, was still living in Halesworth before his move the following year to Glasgow. Lindley was impressed with a book he found in Hooker's extensive botanical library - Richard's "Demonstrations botaniques, ou Analyse du Fruit considere en general" of 1808. He translated the work into English, working for three days non-stop. When published, it included six plates from Lindley's original drawings. The title page claims it includes the author's… Read More