Joseph Knight's Cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order Proteēae, London 1809
Subtitle: facsimile reprint
By: with an introduction by J.P. Rourke ; illustrated with 4 full colour plates
Publisher: Tablecloth Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780620106061
Subjects: Proteaceae
Other titles: Cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order Proteēae, London 1809; Joseph Knight's Proteēae; On the natural order of Proteēæ; On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of Proteēae
Notes: Facsimile reprint. Originally published: London : William Savage, Printer, Bedford Bury, London, 1809.

Includes facsimile of original title page: On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of Proteēæ, with their generic as well as specific characters and places where they grow wild.

Includes tipped in errata slip, an addenda, an index, and a 6-page advertisement for works published by William Savage.

"[T]his facsimile reprint is being produced in its rare original style of binding."--Page xxxiii.

"The British Museum (Natural History) ... granted permission to reproduce the three ... unpublished Protea illustrations by F.A. Bauer."--Page xxxiii.

"Horticultural essays I."--Cover.

"This edition is limited to 300 numbered copies ... all signed by J.P. Rourke ..."--Page v (1st set).

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxiv-xxxv).

Lib. copy number 210, signed by J.P. Rourke.