[Erasmus Darwin] — The Botanic Garden, a Poem

London, J. Johnson, 1799. Leather. The first of two poems which make up Erasmus Darwin's 'The Botanic Garden', in a smart calf binding with the important Blake plates. The fourth edition. Part I only of two parts, being 'The Economy of Vegetation&apos.  In a fine recent half calf binding, with cloth boards and green cloth spine label. Renewed endpapers.  Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and ten plates, one of which is a folding section of the strata to the llow main coal at St. Anthon's colliery. Collated, complete with all plates for this volume, including a number from seminal English Romantic painter William Blake.  First published in 1791, The Economy of Vegetation celebrates technological innovation and scientific discovery and offers theories of scientific questions at the time, such as the history of the cosmos.  This serves as one of two poems that make The Botanic Garden, by the British poet and naturalist Erasmus Darwin.  In a fine recent half calf binding, with green cloth spine label. Renewed endpapers. Externally, lovely, with only a light mark to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are untrimmed and generally bright and clean, with toning to the frontispiece and offsetting to the title page. The odd spot. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .