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Introduction to botany
- Title
- Introduction to botany [manuscript sketchbook] / by E. Beecroft, Lowestoft, 1823
- Author
- Beecroft, E.
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Permit needed | Pforz BND-MSS (Beecroft, E.) | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
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- Description
- 1 volume (135 manuscript pages; 92 total leaves) : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- Botanical sketchbook containing the notes and illustrations of E. Beecroft, identified in a pencil note on the title page as "Mrs. Beecroft." The text opens with a five-page and two-line guide to Linnean taxonomy copied from Priscilla Wakefield's Introduction to Botany, followed by twenty-one lines on the pleasures of nature, apparenty by Beecroft herself. The bulk of the volume is composed of a series of carefully-rendered full-page pencil and watercolor illustrations of plant specimens (28 in all), followed by manuscript identifications and descriptions. A forty-eight page alphabetical list of plants, including Latin and (when possible) English names, is at the back.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Watercolors (paintings)
- Drawings (visual works)
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- E. Beecroft of Lowestoft could not be identified.
- Binding (note)
- Contemporary red half sheep over marbled boards, gilt spine titling and decoration. With the binder's ticket of "Diboll, bookbinder, Howard Street, Yarmouth."
- Call Number
- Pforz BND-MSS (Beecroft, E.)
- OCLC
- 922645089
- Author
- Beecroft, E.
- Title
- Introduction to botany [manuscript sketchbook] / by E. Beecroft, Lowestoft, 1823
- Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- E. Beecroft of Lowestoft could not be identified.
- Binding
- Contemporary red half sheep over marbled boards, gilt spine titling and decoration. With the binder's ticket of "Diboll, bookbinder, Howard Street, Yarmouth."
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Wakefield, Priscilla, 1751-1832.Diboll, Joseph William, bookbinder.
- Research Call Number
- Pforz BND-MSS (Beecroft, E.)