Excerpt from Early British Botanists: And Their Gardens The Goodyer papers serve to illustrate missing chapters in the histories of Botany and Horticulture in that most interesting period of British Science, the hundred years which preceded the foundation of the Royal Society. Authors of standard histories of British Botany, largely based on German authority, have been apt to skim rapidly over this period, in which several of our countrymen were in some respects well abreast of Linnaeus. And these manuscripts with all the ...
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Excerpt from Early British Botanists: And Their Gardens The Goodyer papers serve to illustrate missing chapters in the histories of Botany and Horticulture in that most interesting period of British Science, the hundred years which preceded the foundation of the Royal Society. Authors of standard histories of British Botany, largely based on German authority, have been apt to skim rapidly over this period, in which several of our countrymen were in some respects well abreast of Linnaeus. And these manuscripts with all the annotated books, which Goodyer bequeathed to Magdalen College in 1664, are probably the completest and most useful collection, for a study of English Botany that was not merely pre-linnean, but was pre-morisonian and pre-raian as well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Fair. No dust jacket. Soil. moderate wear, and tanning to spine of ivory cloth boards, a bit bent at tips of spine. Some yellowing to endpapers. Plates and illus very good, as is text interior, without marks. Fair only because of the boards which are... 417 p. Includes: illustrations, index. Rare in any condition. "Based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tadescant, and others"--many lists of plants in the gardens, as well as books etc. Frederick Hall, for the Author at the Oxford University Press, Oxford 1922-pp viii, 417 plus a frontispiece and 7 other pages of plates (Two of the plates in the List of Illustrations are on the same page. ) Also with illustrations in the text. Size: Imp 8vo [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] Conservatively described as "fair" because the ivory cloth boards show discoloration more than usual; binding is tight and interior text good, with illus. etc complete and very good.
