Description: KNAPP, Frances Holliday, Miss. The Botanical Chart of British Flowering Plants and Ferns: shewing at one view their chief characteristics; generic and specific names, with the derivation; their localities, properties, etc. First edition. x, [2], 81 double-pagecharts, [1], 84-90, [4]pp adverts. A very good clean copy bound in slightly marked original blind stamped and gilt lettered cloth.8vo. Bath: Binns and Goodwin. 1846. ~ Frances was the daughter of Joseph John Knapp and Mary Ann Novosielski (of Bath). On the death of her father in 1818, her uncle James Knapp became her guardian. George Knapp, of Devonshire Buildings in Bath is the only family member listed in the subscribers, which also records many local names, predominantly ladies. Ref: "A History of the Chief English Families Bearing the Name Knapp" by Oswald Greenway Knapp, privately printed for the author by St.Catherine's Press, London, 1911. “Her botanical chart is ingeniously devised, and admirable as well as faithfully executed. Although condensed into a tabular arrangement, it is simple and perspicuous, as well as comprehensive.” The Gentleman’s Magazine, Volume 181, 1847.
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