Country Rambles, and Manchester Walks and Wild Flowers / Being Rural Wanderings in Cheshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire

by Leo H. Grindon

1773. N. J. Jacquin: Flora Austriaca. Five vols., folio. Full of splendid coloured plates.—City.

1775. Aublet: Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Française. Four vols., 4to. Two of them made up of very beautiful and interesting plates.—City, Chet.

1777. John Miller: The Sexual System of Linnæus. A massive elephant folio, with 103 magnificent coloured plates.—Chet., City.

1777. Curtis: Flora Londinensis. Folio. Several vols. The finest coloured plates of British wild–flowers ever given to the world.—Chet., City. (See 1828 for continuation.)

1781–1786. N. J. Jacquin: Icones Plantarum Rariorum. Contains 200 splendid coloured plates. Three vols.—Chet.; vol. i., City.

1784. Pallas: Flora Rossica. Folio. Full of beautiful coloured plates.—City.

1784. L’Heritier: Stirpes Novæ, &c. Folio. Full of fine plates.—City.

1787. Curtis: The renowned “Botanical Magazine” was commenced this year. No Manchester library contains the whole. The following are the localities of all the town possesses, including a portion in the “Royal Exchange”:—1787–1842, vols. 1 to 68, City; 1843–1859, vols. 69 to 85, Royal Exchange; 1860–1869, vols. 86 to 95, nowhere; 1870–1882, vols. 96 onwards to present time, City.