James Sowerby

• First full biography of James Sowerby using some new, as well as extensive scholarly resources

• Provides authoritative and enlightening accounts of how some of the most important botanical works were produced and used.

• Covers the importance of botany at a time of much scientific development and the role of art in the development of taxonomy

• Beautifully illustrated with Sowerby’s artwork, along with extracts from letters, manuscripts and publications involving natural historians