Sertum Anglicum, 1788
Sertum Anglicum, 1788

Author: Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle

Publisher: Pittsburgh : Hunt Botanical Library

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 248

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Facsimile and English translation of L'Héritier de Brutelle's nomenclaturally important work of 1788, illustrated by Redouté and James Sowerby. The plants described were introduced into Europe from collections gathered throughout the world during 18th-century voyages of exploration. Introductory chapters include a foreword by George H. M. Lawrence, "L'Héritier de Brutele: The man and his work" by F. A. Stafleu, "The plants of Sertum Anglicum" by J. S. L. Gilmour, C. J. King, and L. H. J. Williams, and "The illustrators of Sertum Anglicum" by Wildrid Blunt.

The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal

Author: Ralph Griffiths

Publisher:

Published: 1789

Total Pages: 768

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A monthly book announcement and review journal. Considered to be the first periodical in England to offer reviews. In each issue the longer reviews are in the front section followed by short reviews of lesser works. It featured the novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith as an early contributor. Griffiths himself, and likely his wife Isabella Griffiths, contributed review articles to the periodical. Later contributors included Dr. Charles Burney, John Cleland, Theophilus Cibber, James Grainger, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Moody, and Tobias Smollet.