Libri di James Sowerby

Sfogliare un libro di illustrazioni di rose vuol dire abbandonarsi ad un mondo, entrare in un giardino e, in empatia con chi lo ha rappresentato, lasciarsi inebriare dalle sue suggestioni. Ebbene, in questo libro dedicato alle rose, sono state scelte quelle di due autori, Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) e James Sowerby (1757-1822), per raccontare l'emozione della regina dei fiori.

Shown in this series of three books are the complete and original pattern hand-colored engravings plates from the artist James Sowerby’s medical plants present in the great work of William Woodville: Medical botany (London : Printed and sold for the author, by James Phillips, 1790-1793). Medical Botany, William Woodville’s three volume work of materia medica, was published in monthly installments between 1790 and 1793. A third edition of five volumes (the same used in our reproduction) was presented in 1832, twenty-seven years after Woodville’s death. This publication added descriptions of thirty-nine new plants and was edited and revised by the eminent botanist, William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865). With this work, Woodville intended to educate medical practitioners about the plants they prescribe and improve upon preceding works by introducing new plants and more detail.