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Introduction to botany

Title
  1. Introduction to botany [manuscript sketchbook] / by E. Beecroft, Lowestoft, 1823
Author
  1. Beecroft, E

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Additional authors
  1. Wakefield, Priscilla, 1751-1832
  2. Diboll, Joseph William
Description
  1. 1 volume (135 manuscript pages; 92 total leaves) : illustrations; 21 cm
Summary
  1. 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.
Subject
  1. Botany -- England -- Lowestoft
  2. Plants -- Pictorial works
  3. Plants -- Nomenclature
Genre/Form
  1. Watercolors (paintings)
  2. Drawings (visual works)
Call number
  1. Pforz BND-MSS (Beecroft, E.)
Access (note)
  1. Restricted access;
Biography (note)
  1. E. Beecroft of Lowestoft could not be identified.
Binding (note)
  1. Contemporary red half sheep over marbled boards, gilt spine titling and decoration. With the binder's ticket of "Diboll, bookbinder, Howard Street, Yarmouth."
Author
  1. Beecroft, E.
Title
  1. Introduction to botany [manuscript sketchbook] / by E. Beecroft, Lowestoft, 1823
Access
  1. Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Biography
  1. E. Beecroft of Lowestoft could not be identified.
Binding
  1. Contemporary red half sheep over marbled boards, gilt spine titling and decoration. With the binder's ticket of "Diboll, bookbinder, Howard Street, Yarmouth."
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Added author
  1. Wakefield, Priscilla, 1751-1832.
  2. Diboll, Joseph William, bookbinder.
Research call number
  1. Pforz BND-MSS (Beecroft, E.)
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