Thomas Martyn | Figures of plants, 1796, original botanical watercolours

Thomas Martyn

Figures of plants. London, 1796

Manuscript and watercolour on paper, 2 volumes, 4to (345 x 270mm.), 60 original watercolour drawings of plants, accompanying manuscript descriptions for many of the drawings, finely bound in straight grained red morocco gilt by Hering with his ticket, covers with gilt fillet and greek borders gilt, flat spine gilt in compartments with drawer-handle motifs

FINE BOTANICAL DRAWINGS. The leaves have a broken sequence of early pencil numbers running to 67. It is possible therefore that some drawings have been removed; equally, Martyn’s volumes are notable for being erratic in their make-up. Most of the drawings in volume 1 have a leaf of manuscript description; most of those in volume 2 do not.