The vegetable system. Or, the internal structure and the life of plants; their parts, and nourishment, explained; their classes, orders, genera, and species, ascertained, and described; in a method altogether new: comprehending an artificial index, and a natural system. ... By John Hill, M.D

All titles

• The vegetable system. Or, the internal structure and the life of plants; their parts, and nourishment, explained; their classes, orders, genera, and species, ascertained, and described; in a method altogether new: comprehending an artificial index, and a natural system. ... By John Hill, M.D
• Vegetable system; Internal structure and the life of plants

People / Organizations

• John Hill (Author)
• John Nourse ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for the author: sold also by R. Baldwin; J. Ridley; J. Nourse, T. Becket, P. Elmsly, J. Cambell; and T. Davis [sic], 1770-75. The second edition: corrected by the author; and with all the plates retouched and improved ..; ..

Publication year

1770-1775

ESTC No.

T26372

Grub Street ID

258451

Description

21v.,plates ; 2°.

Note

A second series of 21 vols. only; vols. 22-26 of the first edition extend the set

The edition statement appears on the title pages of vols. 1-2 and 21

Vol. 3 continues the pagination of vol. 2

The imprints to vols. 2-6 have J. Balfour in place of T. Davis; that to vol. 7 adds B. White and L. Davis; those to vols. 8-20 omit J. Nourse and T. Becket; the imprint to vol. 21 reads: printed for the author: and sold by T. Trueman

Vol. 1 is dated 1770; vol. 2, 1771; vols. 3-7 and 10, 1772; vols. 8-9 and 11-20, 1773; vol. 21, 1775.