Flora anglica; exhibens plantas per regnum Britanniæ sponte creseentes distributas secundum systema sexuale: cum differentiis specierum synonymis auctorum nominibus incolarum solo locorum tempore florendi officinalibus pharmacopæorum

London: R. Faulder; Wm Otridge; R.Lea; E. Jeffery; Ogilvie & Son; J. Cuthell; et al, 1798. Third printing. Thick octavo, pp (2), (iv), xxxii, 688, some light foxing and age-toning throughout, a slight fold to the top margin of the title page, contemporary full polished tree calf, rubbed but with a good patina,the spine rather wrinkled, the head band becoming loose. From the library of Kenneth Lazenby, a founding member of the Alpine Garden Society, with his bookplate on the front endpaper. [Blanche Henrey 860.]. [A fundamental work in the bibliography of the British flora. Hudson was born between 1730 and 1732 at the White Lion Inn, Kendal, which was kept by his father. He was educated at Kendal grammar school, He was subsequently apprenticed to an apothecary in London. He obtained the prize for botany given by the Apothecaries' Company which was a copy of Ray's Synopsis. However, he also paid attention to mollusca and insects and in Pennant's British Zoology he is mentioned as the discoverer of Trochus terrestris. From 1757 to 1768 Hudson was resident sub-librarian of the British Museum, and his studies in the Sloane herbarium enabled him to adapt the Linnean nomenclature to the plants described by Ray far more accurately than did John Hill in his Flora Britannica of 1760. In 1761 Hudson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the following year the first edition of his Flora Anglica appeared, which, according to Pulteney and J. E. Smith, "marks the establishment of Linnean principles of botany in England." The work long remained the essential manual of British botanists. In 1778 Hudson published a new edition, with many additions and alterations. The copy offered here is the 1798 printing of that edition.]. Full-Leather. Good.