James Sowerby: The Enlightenment’s Natual Historian

* 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