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The Flowering Plants ..., Anne Pratt
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| Title |
THE FLOWERING PLANTS; Grasses, Sedges & Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies The Club Mosses, Horsetails, &c. Four Volumes |
| Author |
Anne Pratt (5th December 1806 - 1893) was a botanical illustrator from Kent in Egland. She was one of the best known English botanical illustrators of the Victorian age. Due to poor health in childhood she was encouraged to occupy herself by drawing. Anne Pratt was educated at Eastgate House, Rochester, and was introduced to botany by Dr. Dods, a family friend. She moved to Brixton, London in 1826 where she developed he career as an illustrator. She settled in Dover in 1849, then in East Grinstead in 1866 where she married John Pearless. Anne Pratt's works were written in popular style but were said to be accurate. She was responsible for the popularising of Botany. She never achieved critical acclaim on the grounds that she was self taught. |
| Date | 1899 - 1900 |
| Publisher | Frederick Warne & Co. |
| London and New York | |
| Edition | Unspecified |
| Comments | Page Size 8.5" H x 11.25" W |
| Illustrated with three hundred and nineteen coloured plates figuring upwwards of 1600 species. Current edition revised by Edward Step, F.L.S. | |