Class VII Umbrellate, Class VIII Caryophyllous, Class IX Liliaceous[Lily]

Description

hand-coloured steel engraving. Botanical print from ‘Tourneforts System’.

Botanical print from Rees’ ‘The Cyclopaedia. or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature’, pl. 4. This important 19th-century encyclopedic work was published in serialized form from 1802 to 1820. The entire Cyclopaedia consisted of 39 volumes of text, 5 volumes of plates and an atlas. Engraved by Milton after Sydenham Teast Edwards.