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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1788 Excerpt: ... a different state, I have taken another figure, perhaps on the same or on a separate paper, and have always accompanied these drawings with descriptive notes.--In the Drawing, I have all along endeavoured to give a faithful and accurate imitation of the object before me, and to represent Nature just as I saw her in herself, with her simplicity and accidents about her. From a selected choice of the above drawings, the figures on the plates were taken; and from those descriptive notes, the descriptions were selected: and there is not one figure, nor one description in the whole work, which was not originally drawn and written by my own hand, from an immediate inspection of the respective object, when in a recent state; and (except in a few instances) gathered, in the natural place of growth, by me. The Etching of the plates, such as it is, is wholly my own performance; and when a specimen fell into my hands, at a time when I had an, opportunity of etching it, I made the primary outline upon the copper without any previous drawing, I drew it on the waxed plate, with vermillion, in the point of a sine pencil; and when I copied drawings, I used the same method in laying the outline upon the plate; for besides that it was more readily done, and more agreeable to me, it prevented those injuries which the wax is liable to in back tracing; and preserved an. an air of originality in the outline, which is not without great difficulty retained, under that hazardous and disagreeable operation. The Essay towards a methodical arrangement of the Agarics contained in this work, how imperfect soever in its present infant state, may, I hope, be useful, in exciting the attention of such of my friends in particular, or of Botanists in general, as have made some progre...

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