AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE & WONDERFUL SET OF TWELVE 19th CENTURY BOTANICALS BY JOHN LINDLEY 

AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE & WONDERFUL SET OF TWELVE 19th CENTURY BOTANICALS BY JOHN LINDLEY 

Published, London 1830.

These were drawn mostly by the english illustrator Augusta Withers, and engraved by "W. Clark and S. Watts," with wonderful original colouring. 

John Lindley, an English horticulturist, was born Feb. 5, 1799. Son of a seed-merchant, Lindley was largely a self-taught botanist, working for Sir Joseph Banks as a young man, writing a few short monographs, joining the Linnean Society of London, and becoming a secretary to the Horticultural Society by 1822. He must have attracted favorable attention, for in 1829, he was appointed professor of botany at University College in London, which was only 3 years old at the time, and he held this position for 31 years.

PRICE: Available individually £300

PRICE: Available as a set of twelve £3,300