An introduction to botany
Subtitle: in a series of familiar letters, with illustrative engravings
By: By Priscilla Wakefield, author of Mental improvement, Leisure hours, &c. ; To which is added, an appendix, containing the celebrated Mr. Roscoe's Address to the proprietors of the Botanic Garden at Liverpool, on the utility and importance of botany; a catalogue of the English names and Linnæan genera of the plants described in this volume; and a glossary of technical terms
Contributors: Roscoe, William, 1753-1831; Belcher, Joshua, 1784?-1816; Wightman, Thomas; James W. Burditt & Co
Edition: The first American, from the fifth London edition.
Publisher: Published by J. Belcher, Congress Street, and J.W. Burditt and Co. Court Street.
Published: 1811
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Botany; Sisters; Juvenile literature
Notes: In the form of a series of letters between sisters.

"The design of the following Introduction to botany, is to cultivate a taste in young persons for the study of nature, which is the most familiar means of introducing suitable ideas of the attributes of the Divine Being, by exemplifying them in the order and harmony of the visible creation. ..."--Preface, p. [iii].

Edition statement transposed; precedes "To which is added ..." on title page.

"J. Belcher, printer."--verso of title page.

"The plates engraved by Thos. Wightman"--foot of plate 1.

"Catalogue of plants mentioned in this work."--index, p. 183-195.

"A glossary of technical terms used in this volume."--index, p. 196-204.

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