The loves of plants
By: by E. Darwin
Publisher: for Johnson
Published: 1790
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Other titles: Botanic garden.; The Botanic garden.
Notes: Offprint: The Botanic Garden, Part 2, 2nd edition, by E. Darwin. [Interludes containing literary dialogues between the Bookseller and a poet].

Nos. 24-25 repeated in paging.

On the Linnean system of classification.

In the "Advertisement" (p. [iii]), Darwin remarks, "The author has withheld this work (excepting a few pages) many years from the press ..."; apparently, the "few pages" are lines 1-58 of canto i of pt. i, published over the signature of Anna Seward in the Gentleman's magazine 53 (1783), p. 428. Cf. J.V. Logan, The poetry and esthetics of Erasmus Darwin (1936), p. 115, who accepts Seward's claim to authorship.

The statement in the CBEL that the second part first appeared under title "The loves of the plants" appears unfounded.

"Advertisement" (p. [iii-iv]) misbound following p. [viii].