The botanic garden [microform] : A poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing the economy of vegetation. Part II. The loves of the plants. : With philosophical notes
- Author
- Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802
- Published
- New-York : Printed by T. & J. Swords, printers to the faculty of physic of Columbia College, no. 99 Pearl-Street, 1798.
- Edition
- The first American edition.
- Physical Description
- 15 unnumbered pages, viii-xi, 5 unnumbered pages, 256, x, 1 unnumbered page, 12-146 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 17 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Additional Creators
- Smith, E. H. (Elihu Hubbard), 1771-1798 and Tanner, Benjamin, 1775-1848
Online Version
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- Subject(s)
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- Note
- "Errata" and "Instructions to the binder for placing the engravings"--recto of last leaf.
Attributed to Erasmus Darwin in the Dictionary of national biography.
Each part has separate title page. Part I is from the 3d, part II from the 4th London edition. Edited for republication, with a poetic "Epistle to the author of the Botanic garden," by Elihu Hubbard Smith.
Plates engraved by Benjamin Tanner.
With a half-title.
ONLINE VERSION AVAILABLE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS. - Other Forms
- Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series.
- Reproduction Note
- Microopaque. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1955-1983. 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 33600).
- Reviewed/Cited In
- Evans, C. American bibliography, 33600
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