Botany.- Sowerby (James) and James Edward Smith. English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, 36 vol. in 18, 2,592 hand-coloured engraved plates (some folding), a few pagination errors and some plates bound in wrong order, one plate bound upside down, ink stamps to titles and verso of a few other pp., offsetting, surface soiling and some browning, mostly marginal, the odd stain or mark, scattered spotting and light foxing, affecting a few plates, some pp. trimmed at head or foot with slight loss to text or plate, a couple of marginal nicks or small tears, some vol. with cracking at upper hinge, modern morocco-backed boards, spines gilt, spines a little faded, the odd mark or stain, some rubbing and bumping, [Nissen BBI 2225], 8vo, J. Davis, R. Taylor, et al., 1790 -1814.