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THORNTON, Robert John.
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A family herbal: or, familiar account of the medical properties of British and foreign plants, also their uses in dying, and the various arts arranged, according to the Linnæan system, and illustrated by two hundred and fifty-eight engravings from plants drawn from nature by Henderson and engraved by Bewick, of Newcastle. Second edition considerably enlarged, etc.
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Soulsby no.:
Soulsby no. 793

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Place of publication:
London
Publishing year:
1814
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(8o)
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Language(s):
English

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Bewick, Thomas,
1753-1828.
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003630127
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Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
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A Family Herbal : or familiar account of the medical properties of British and foreign plants, also their uses in dying [sic], and the various arts, arranged according to the Linnæan system, and illustrated by two hundred and fifty-eight engravings from plants drawn from nature by Henderson, and engraved by Bewick of Newcastle
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Thornton's herbal.
Soulsby no.:
Soulsby no. 793

Edition details

Publisher:
B. and R. Crosby and Co.
Place of publication:
London
Publishing year:
1814
Edition:
Second edition / considerably enlarged and improved
Physical description:
xxviii, [1], x-xvi, 901 p. : 1 port., col. ill. ; 24 cm.
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Language(s):
English

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Dedicated to: Her Majesty, Charlotte, Queen of England. Printed by T. Bensley.
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With tables of new and former names, and an appendix of doses for adults.
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NHM GENERAL - Bookplate of Thomas Hartley Gillfoot on front endpaper.
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In English.
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Bewick, Thomas,
1753-1828.
Artist
Henderson
Linné, Carl von,
1707-1778
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9927598802081
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Index p. 889-901.
NHM GENERAL - Presented by Basil H. Soulsby. 16.x.1930. C. Thurnam & Sons. £1.7.9.
The artist was probably Peter Charles Henderson (d. 1829), identified in Dictionary of British Flower, Fruit and Still Life Painters (R. Brinsley Burbidge, 1974).
NHM GENERAL - Pencil drawing on a slip of paper at p. 512/513.
NHM GENERAL - Refurbished. 1.xii.1930. 2/-. With marbled endpaper, edges and covers. Tooled leather spine with raised bands.
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Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
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A family herbal; or, Familiar account of the medical properties of British and foreign plants, also their uses in dying, and the various arts, arranged according to the Linnean system. Plants drawn from nature by Henderson, and engraved by Bewick.
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Soulsby no.:
Soulsby no. 793.

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Publisher:
Crosby
Place of publication:
London
Publishing year:
1814
Edition:
2d ed., considerably enl. and improved.
Physical description:
xxviii, 902, [11] p. illus. 24 cm.
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Language(s):
English

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Medicinal plants.
Botany, Economic.
Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837 Portraits.
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ocm14531717
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Attached to page 402 is an old brass page marker in the shape of a pointing finger.
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Author:
Thornton, Robert John (1768?-1837)
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Title:
A family herbal; or, Familiar account of the medical properties of British and foreign plants, also their uses in dying, and the various arts, arranged according to the Linnean system.
Varying title form:
Soulsby no.:
Soulsby no. 793

Edition details

Publisher:
Crosby
Place of publication:
London
Publishing year:
1814
Edition:
2d ed., considerably enl. and improved.
Physical description:
xxviii, 901 p. illus., port.
Series entry:
Language(s):
English

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First ed. has title: A new family herbal; or, Popular account of the natures and properties of the various plants used in medicine, diet, and the arts.
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Bookplate and signature of George Bennet, Sheffield, 1821.
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Author:
Thornton, Robert John (1768?-1837).
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Title:
A family herbal : or familiar account of the medical properties of British and foreign plants, also their uses in dying, and the various arts, arranged according to the Linnaean system, and illustrated by two hundred and fifty-eight engravings from plants drawn from nature by Henderson, and engraved by Bewick of Newcastle.
Varying title form:
Soulsby no.:
Soulsby no. 793

Edition details

Publisher:
R. and R. Crosby and Co.
Place of publication:
London
Publishing year:
1814
Edition:
Second edition, considerably enlarged and improved, by Robert John Thornton, M.D.
Physical description:
Pp. xxviii, 901 : illus., front. (port.) ; 21.8 cm.
Series entry:
Language(s):
English

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The main body of the work is a straight reprint of the 1810 edition, even to the inclusion of the former publisher's notices. The new material consists of the prelims, and an inserted gathering *3L (with pages running on from the preceding text page, though this means a duplication of page numbers with the subsequent index). The erratum in the 1810 edition is omitted, but the error uncorrected. The work therefore consists largely of re-packaged sheets from the 1810 printing.
Complete imprint statement. London: Printed for R. and R. Crosby and Co. Stationers Court, Ludgate Street. 1814.
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Front pastedown bears (partially overlapped by library label) the engraved armorial bookplate of Samuel George Smith, with motto Tenax in Fide (an ancestor of the Smith who was raised to the peerage as Baron Bicester in 1938).
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Subject:
Thornton, Robert John (1768?-1837) (Portrait).
Medicinal plants.
19th century.
Classification system: Linnaeus.
Herbals
Additional author(s):
Queen
Charlotte Sophia,
(1744-1818)
Smith, Samuel George.
Cory, Reginald Radcliffe
(1871-1934)
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B. and R. Crosby (London, England)
Richard Phillips (London, England)
Richard Taylor and Co. (London, England)
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Bound in full stained calf, the spine with five raised bands, each flanked by gilt single fillets. Red morocco lettering-piece with gilt dotted fillets and title: THORNTON'S / FAMILY / HERBAL. Edges stained in alternating brown and yellow; top-edge stained.