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BROMPTON BOTANIC GARDEN
Terms of subscribing to the Brompton Botanic Garden. Subscribers paying one guinea are entitled to walk in the garden inspect the plants, and peruse the books, &c. in the library, ...
London (Place), [180-?].
1 card ; 12.8 cm.
Printed card with engraved plan on the verso. Drop-head title. The botanist William Curtis, editor of The Botanical Magazine, moved his botanical garden from Lambeth Marsh to Brompton in 1789 to escape smoke pollution. The plan contains page references in the range from p. 1 to p. 106 to the 'Catalogue', possibly that published in 1803 by W. Bulmer.
Copy Notes NEW RECORD
Reference Number 6804
Additional Names Curtis, William (1746--1799)
Terms of subscribing to the Brompton Botanic Garden. Subscribers paying one guinea are entitled to walk in the garden inspect the plants, and peruse the books, &c. in the library, ...
London (Place), [180-?].
1 card ; 12.8 cm.
Printed card with engraved plan on the verso. Drop-head title. The botanist William Curtis, editor of The Botanical Magazine, moved his botanical garden from Lambeth Marsh to Brompton in 1789 to escape smoke pollution. The plan contains page references in the range from p. 1 to p. 106 to the 'Catalogue', possibly that published in 1803 by W. Bulmer.
Copy Notes NEW RECORD
Reference Number 6804
Additional Names Curtis, William (1746--1799)