Book Description

The plates include the one sponsored by, and presented to, [Frances Mary] Richardson Currer, of Bierley Hall, now demolished, and a folding pedigree of the Richardsons of Bierley. Also included is the index to the whole work, and, pp.60-64, “A Catalogue of the Rarer Plants growing within Twenty Miles of Leeds.” Provenance: charming pictorial etched ex-libris bookplate for Henry Eustatius Strickland, by F.S. 1825 - probably Frances Strickland,
Author WHITAKER (Thomas Dunham)
Date 1820
Binding original printed wrappers,
Publisher London, Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co.,
Illustrator 4 engr. plates, 1 folding pedigree,
Condition (some foxing)
Pages folio, pp. 88, 73/74*,

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