The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 08 by William Curtis
"The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 08" by William Curtis is a botanical publication from the late 18th century. This volume is part of the longest-running botanical magazine, featuring detailed descriptions and hand-colored illustrations of ornamental and exotic plants. Curtis combined accessible scientific language with keenly detailed artwork, making botanical knowledge available to gardeners, horticulturalists, and plant enthusiasts. Many plants received their first formal publication in these pages, with illustrations created through copper engravings
and hand-colored by teams of artists, establishing the magazine as a premier journal of botanical illustration. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Curtis, William, 1746-1799 |
|---|---|
| Title |
The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 08 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%27s_Botanical_Magazine |
| Credits |
Produced by Jason Isbell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file made using scans of public domain works at the University of Georgia.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 59.2 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | QK: Science: Botany |
| Subject | Plants -- Periodicals |
| Subject | Plants, Cultivated -- Periodicals |
| Subject | Plants, Ornamental -- Periodicals |
| Subject | Botanical illustration -- Periodicals |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 24670 |
| Release Date | Feb 22, 2008 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 3, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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