Object Details
- author
- Sweet, Robert 1783-1835
- publisher
- Ridgway, James
- bookseller
- Ridgway, James
- printer
- Tilling, John
- former owner
- Hitchcock, A. S (Albert Spear) 1865-1935 DSI
- Chase, Agnes 1869-1963 DSI
- "Tilling, printer, Chelsea"--Verso of title page.
- Indices of Latin and English plant names on unnumbered pages at end of each part.
- Errata: pages [465]-492.
- Also available online.
- Elecresource
- SCNHRB copy (39088006191878, 39088006191860) has bookplate: Library of A.S. Hitchcock and Agnes Chase. Stamped on title pages: A.S. Hitchcock.
- SCNHRB copy inscribed in ink at head of title page to part 2: Dr. Hopack New York from R. Barday.
- SCNHRB copy with publisher's advertisements on 2 leaves bound-in at end of part 1.
- SCNHRB copy bound in sprinkled calf, title in gilt within red leather spine label.
- Summary
- The first career of Robert Sweet was as a gardener in private employment and as a nurseryman. He turned in 1826 to botanical writing, having already published Hortus suburbanus Londinensis (1818), and the first of the five-volume Geraniaceae (1820-30). The first edition of this work was published in 1826, and this revised second edition in 1830. Sweet uses Jussieu's 'natural' system of classification, but concedes that 'we still consider the addition of the Linnaean classes and orders, of great use, as they are so readily attained by the young Botanist'. He provides nine two-column closely packed pages of source works in which images of the plants cited in this unillustrated work can be found, and which also testify to the breadth of his own research in producing a reference work which is comprehensive as a record of plants then growing and flowering in British gardens.
- 1826
- Call number
- QK306 .S96 1826
- QK306.S97s 1826
- Type
- Catalogs
- Physical description
- 2 parts ; 23 cm
- Place
- Great Britain
- Title
- Hortus Britannicus
- Catalogue of plants cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Botany
- Plants, Cultivated
- Record ID
- siris_sil_375549
