The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants
Subtitle: containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrated Linnaeus : in English and Latin : to each description is added a short history of the plant, as to its time of flowering, culture, native place of growth, when introduced, and by whom
By: the whole executed by Henry Andrews ...
Contributors: Bensley, Thomas, ca. 1760-1835, printer; Haworth, Adrian Hardy, 1768-1833; Kennedy, John, 1759-1842; Jackson, George, d. 1811; Smith, John Donnell, 1829-1928, donor
Publisher: Printed by T. Bensley, and published by the author ...; To be had of J. White, Fleet-street, and all the booksellers
Published: 1797
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 685
Subjects: Cultivated Plants; Botany; Flowers; Pictorial works
Other titles: Botanist's repository, comprising colour'd engravings of new and rare plants only
Notes: Text of v. I-V "probably written by John Kennedy ..., v. VI by A. Haworth, v. VII-X by George Jackson" -- Cf. Stafleu.

Printed t.p. present in v. I only; engraved title pages lack imprint.

Originally issued in 137 monthly parts (Cf. ESTC).

Plates are unsigned but were drawn and engraved by the author--Cf. Cleveland collections, p. 598.

Plates are hand-colored.

Each v. with errata on verso of or at foot of index leaf except for v. I where errata on verso of preface.

Includes indexes; additional indexes for v. I-V bound at end of v. VI and for VI-X bound at end of v. X.

ESTC T88189

Stafleu & Cowan. Taxonomic lit. (2nd ed.), 135

Johnston, S.H. Cleveland collections, 641

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB has two copies.

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088015704596, 39088015704638, 39088015704679, 39088015704711, 39088015704752) stamped on t.p.'s: Smithsonian Institution National Museum [ms. acc. no.] 242403.

SCNHRB c. 1 bound in 5 vols. in three-quarters brown sheepskin and marbled paper boards, title in gilt on spine, green endpapers; uncut; bookseller's ticket: William Wesley & Son, London. Printed bibliographical description attached to front free endpaper of v. I.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015704794, 39088015704836, 39088015704877, 39088015704919, 39088015704950) without the general printed t.p. Indexes for each v. bound in front; indexes for v. I-V and VI-X both bound in v. X.

SCNHRB c. 2 has Smithsonian Institution bookplate with donor's name, John Donnell Smith, in ink.

SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on engraved t.p.'s: Smithsonian Institution Special Collections Sep 10 1929.

SCNHRB c. 2 bound as 5 vols. in tan calf with unidentified gilt armorial on front and back covers, title in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers, gilt edges; measures 28 cm; housed in archival cardboard boxes.