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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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1 volume (135 manuscript pages; 92 total leaves) : illustrations; 21 cm
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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."
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Pforz BND-MSS (Beecroft, E.)
OCLC
922645089
Author
Beecroft, E.
Title
Introduction to botany [manuscript sketchbook] / by E. Beecroft, Lowestoft, 1823
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.
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."
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Wakefield, Priscilla, 1751-1832.
Diboll, Joseph William, bookbinder.
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Pforz BND-MSS (Beecroft, E.)
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