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DARWIN, ERASMUS. The Botanic Garden, A Poem. In Two Parts. Part I. Containing the Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants.With Philosophical Notes. The Fourth Edition. Engraved frontispieces and 20 plates, including 5 by William Blake. xx, 492; xii, 282, [2] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, modern 1/2 calf with morocco booklabels; varying offsetting from engraved plates, scattered pencil marginalia. London: J. Johnson, 1799
First published in 1791, "a poetic work designed to introduce a wider public to the Linnaean mode of plant classification" (ODNB) by the grandfather of Charles Darwin. Bentley 540D; Henrey 613; Soulsby 730.
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