Flora Londinensis botanical engraving Atriplex patula. Spreading Orach. c1820

$120.00

Atriplex patula. Spreading Orach.

Original copperplate engraving with contemporary colour, for “Flora Londinensis containing a history of the plants indigenous to Great Britain, illustrated by figures of the natural size” published in London between 1817 and 1828 by George Graves F.L.S. and eminent botanist, William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865).

Page Size: 48cm x 29cm (19" x 11.5"). The plate marks varied in size, for the beautiful plates for this enlarged edition.