[Darwin, Erasmus]. The Botanic Garden, 2 parts in one, part I 1st edition; part II 3rd edition, 1791, general title, engraved frontispieces, 18 engraved plates, including six by William Blake (one signed, four Portland Vase plates and vignette unsigned), lacking part II half title, some offsetting and a little light spotting, bookplate of Richard Cope Hopton of Canon Frome (1738-1810), contemporary calf gilt, rebacked, a little rubbed, 4to, together with The Botanic Garden part II, volume II only, 1st edition, Lichfield, 1789, half title, engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette, four engraved plates only (of 7), bound without the Supplement at end, light offsetting and spotting, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, 4to (Qty: 2) Provenance: Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth (1932-2006), critic and scholar, and descendant of William Wordsworth Henrey 468; Nissen 451. The second work, part II of the Botanic Garden was first published in Lichfield two years before part I was published in London.
[Darwin, Erasmus]. The Botanic Garden, 2 parts in one, part I 1st edition; part II 3rd edition, 1791, general title, engraved frontispieces, 18 engraved plates, including six by William Blake (one signed, four Portland Vase plates and vignette unsigned), lacking part II half title, some offsetting and a little light spotting, bookplate of Richard Cope Hopton of Canon Frome (1738-1810), contemporary calf gilt, rebacked, a little rubbed, 4to, together with The Botanic Garden part II, volume II only, 1st edition, Lichfield, 1789, half title, engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette, four engraved plates only (of 7), bound without the Supplement at end, light offsetting and spotting, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, 4to (Qty: 2) Provenance: Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth (1932-2006), critic and scholar, and descendant of William Wordsworth Henrey 468; Nissen 451. The second work, part II of the Botanic Garden was first published in Lichfield two years before part I was published in London.
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