Paged continuously. With half titles

Pagination: [8], 234, [8], [235]-503 p., 60 [i.e. 61] leaves of plates

Plates have imprint: London, Published by G. Kearsley, Fleet Street

Plates include an additional one, numbered "19*"

All plates are handcolored

Another version published as "The new flora britannica," with the same imprint (v. 1 only, no more published); cf. NUC pre-1956, BM. Both works apparently adaptations of the "Complete dictionary of practical gardening," published serially 1805-1807, with text by R. W. Dickson and drawings by Sydenham Edwards

Binding: sprinkled calf; gilt rules on boards; spine rebacked; gilt label with title on spine; all edges gilt; ink signature of a former owner dated 1813 on front free endpaper

Gift of Tania Norris

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