Bowden, Jean — John Lightfoot: his work and travels

Bentham-Moxon Trust, Kew and Hunt Institute, Pittsburgh. 1st edition. New. No Jacket. With a biographical introduction and a catalogue of the Lightfoot herbarium, this book mainly describes the various travels undertaken by the Duchess of Portland's chaplain, usually in the company of Thomas Pennant. Their journey to northern Scotland took place the year before Boswell and Johnson's more celebrated expedition, and they narrowly missed meeting Sir Joseph Banks en route for Newfoundland. Illustrated with a profile of Lightfoot by Mr Curtis as frontispiece; the portrait in oils which now hangs at the Linnean Society of London was undiscovered at the time of publication of this very informative biographical memoir. (5), 254, (1) pp.