Botany. Disposition of Leaves: Compound Leaves engraved by W.Swift c1816

$40.00

Antique print of a wonderful variety of leaves, for Green's Herbal, c1816.

Original stippled copperplate engraving by F. Hilliard, published between 1816 and 1820 by Henry Fisher of Caxton Press in Liverpool, England, for the encyclopedia of herbal knowledge, "The Universal Herbal, or, Botanical, Medical and Agricultural Dictionary: containing an Account of all the known Plants in the World arranged according to the Linnean System, specifying the Uses to which they are or may be applied, wether as Food, as Medicine, or in the Arts or Manufactures, with the best Methods of Propagation and the most recent agricultural Improvements" by Thomas Green (with later hand colouring).

The full page size is 26.5 x 20.5mm (10.4 x 8 inches)