The treasury of botany
Subtitle: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom : with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms : in two parts
By: edited by John Lindley ... and Thomas Moore ... ; assisted by numerous contributors ; illustrated by numerous woodcuts by Fitch and Branston and steel engravings by Adlard.
Contributors: Lindley, John, 1799-1865.; Moore, Thomas, 1821-1887.; Adlard, Henry.; Fitch, W. H. 1817-1892.; Branston, Robert Edward fl. 1840-1850.; Spottiswoode & Co.
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Published: 1866
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1254
Subjects: Botany -- Dictionaries -- 19th century.
Genres: Dictionaries
Notes: T.p. and text printed within thin black double rule border.

Each part is with separate t.p. that is identical except for part numbering.

Steel-engraved plates are with imprint: "H. Adlard sc.".  All are with title captions.

Wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned.

"In the preparation of the Illustrations, the work has had the advantage of the admirable botanical and artistic talent of Mr. W. H. Fitch, by whom the very expressive though diminished woodcut figures have been drawn.  These have been engraved with great fidelity by Mr. R. Branston ... "--Preface.

MASS copy: Bound in half red morocco and brown morocco-grain cloth with the spine blocked in gold and blind; a.e. marbled.  Edges of morocco blocked in blind.  With marbled endpapers.  Lacking p. [i-ii].  With some newspaper clippings and hand-written notes on paper laid in and pasted on text pages.