Transcript of a plant and seed catalogue
Reference code
LOD/04
Title
Transcript of a plant and seed catalogue
Date
first half 20th century
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
Small folio.
Cloth binding, blue, with maroon spine.
Cloth binding, blue, with maroon spine.
Scope and content
Transcript by Dr Conrad Loddiges (d. 1949) of an earlier plant and seed catalogue, 'Verzeichnis von Pflanzen und Saamen welch um billige Preisse zu haben sind Bey Conrad Loddiges, Pflanzschulen-Gärtner und Saamenhändler zu Hackney bey London'. Lettered on the spine 'Hortus Loddigesii 1777'. Conrad Loddiges published a trilingual catalogue in 1777 (see J.Harvey, Early Gardening Catalogues (1972), 40, 47, 49); the present transcript has a German titlepage, foreword and headings, and names of plants in Latin).
Creator
Loddiges, George (1784-1846), nurseryman and horticulturist
Loddiges, Conrad (c 1883-1949), antiquary and surgeon
Loddiges, Conrad (c 1883-1949), antiquary and surgeon
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/872/4
Archival history
Found (1994) with LOC [Papers of Conrad Loddiges on church altars].