Duppa, Richard. First edition of Duppa's introduction to the Linnaean classification

DUPPA, RICHARD 

THE CLASSES AND ORDERS OF THE LINNAEAN SYSTEM OF BOTANY. ILLUSTRATED BY SELECT SPECIMENS OF FOREIGN AND INDIGENOUS PLANTS. LONDON: PRINTED BY T. BENSLEY ... FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME AND BROWN, 1816

3 volumes, 8vo (9 x 5 3/8 in.; 229 x 137 mm). 240 engraved plates, 237 of which hand-colored. Contemporary black straight grain morocco, covers decoratively bordered in gilt and blind, spine with semi-raised bands in six compartment, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, brown endpapers; some wear, nicks to heads of spines, vertical cracks to spine of vol. I, hinges starting.

First edition of Duppa's attractively illustrated popular introduction to the Linnaean classification system: hand-colored issue

"This work is intended to be a complete illustration of the Linnaean system of Botany ... This work was originally begun as an amusement, and it has gradually expanded in size" (Introduction). Includes a dictionary of botanical terms and a general index. The work was published in both colored and uncolored issues.

REFERENCE:

Johnston 786; Nissen BBI 566