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Botany. Wilson (John), A Synopsis of British Plants, in Mr Ray's Method, extensively annotated by a slightly later Enlightenment reader, first edition, Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by John Gooding, on the Side, 1744, collating: [vi], 264pp (the rest supplied in slightly later 18th c MS: 265-271pp, [6]ff (indexes)), with an additional [6]ff of MS, letterpress [Q4] & R1 defective, lacking plates, the whole extensively annotated throughout by Addison Langhorn with manuscript notes, glosses, indexes and 12 pages of further post-1744 readings and notation verso, contemporary vellum over boards, upper-cover tips chipped and the first-fifth of the text block with creased corners, but OK, marbled endpapers, genealogical inscriptions to ffep, 8vo in 4s
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