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001 $ 07/4568
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20230625131813.1
035 # # $z 6244
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Callcott, Maria
245 1 2 $a A Scripture Herbal. - [Epigraph] - By Maria Callcott. -
260 # # $a London: $b Longman, Brown, Green, And Longmans, Paternoster-Row. $c 1842.
300 # # $a x, [2], [xi-]xxii, [2], 544 p.: $b illus.; $c 222 mm. (Octavo.)
505 0 # $a [T.p.] - Preface - Corrigenda - Index To Plants Described In The Scripture Herbal - List Of The Wood-Cuts, With The Authorities For The Figures ... - [Divisional title-page, 'A Scripture Herbal'] - [Text]; [colophon].
508 # # $a The plates are not signed, but in her Preface the author states that they were drawn by herself after the 'authorities ... found in the index to the cuts' and 'accurately followed by that excellent wood-engraver Mr. W. Folkard'.

The printer is named on the title-page verso and in the colophon: 'London: Printed by A. Spottiswoode. New-Street-Square.'
510 0 # $a A study of botanic book illustration was K. Nissen, Die Botanische Buchillustration (2 v. & suppl., 1951-66).

On the author see R.B. Gotch, Maria, Lady Callcott (1937).
561 # # $a The verso of the front loose endpaper is inscribed in ink, 'To the Library of the Royal Academy from the Author -'. Presented by Maria Callcott in 1842 (acknowledged RA Council Minutes, IX, 286).
562 # # $a The rear pastedown carries the binder's ticket, which reads, 'Bound By Westleys, & Clark. - London.'
563 # # $a 19th-century brown cloth, upper and lower covers decorated in blind; spine lettered 'A Scripture Herbal. By M. Callcott. Longman & Co..'
630 0 0 $a Bible
653 # # $a Plants (vegetation) - Botany - Palestine - Israel - History
655 # 0 $a Manuals - Instructional materials - Herbals - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Spottiswoode $e printer
700 1 # $a Callcott $e draughtsman $e previous owner $e donor
700 1 # $a Folkard $e engraver
710 2 # $a Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans $e publisher
710 2 # $a Westleys and Clark (London) $e binder