1757-1773. Elizabeth Blackwell: Herbarium. Six vols., folio. Containing 601 coloured plates of economic plants, every one of them drawn and engraved by herself, in order to raise money to liberate her husband from a debtor's prison.--_Chet._ 1759-1775. Sir John Hill: The Vegetable System. Twenty-six folio volumes. With 1,600 copperplates, containing 6,560 figures.--_City, P. P._ (The latter bound in ten vols.) 1760. Philip Miller: Figures of Plants. Two vols., folio., and new edit., in four vols., 1807.--_Chet._ (An admirable work, with 300 plates.) 1766-1797. G. C. Oeder: Flora Danica. Eleven vols., folio, with 1,200 plates.--_City._ 1770. John Edwards: Herbal. A thin folio of 100 beautiful coloured plates.--_Chet., P. P._ 1772. N. J. Jacquin: Hortus Botanicus Vindobonensis. Two vols., folio. Full of the most beautiful coloured plates.--_Chet._ 1773. N. J. Jacquin: Flora Austriaca. Five vols., folio. Full of splendid coloured plates.--_City._ 1775. Aublet: Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Française. Four vols., 4to. Two of them made up of very beautiful and interesting plates.--_City, Chet._ 1777. John Miller: The Sexual System of Linnæus. A massive elephant folio, with 103 magnificent coloured plates.--_Chet., City._ 1777. Curtis: Flora Londinensis. Folio. Several vols. The finest coloured plates of British wild-flowers ever given to the world.--_Chet., City._ (See 1828 for continuation.) 1781-1786. N. J. Jacquin: Icones Plantarum Rariorum. Contains 200 splendid coloured plates. Three vols.--_Chet._; vol. i., _City_. 1784. Pallas: Flora Rossica. Folio. Full of beautiful coloured plates.--_City._ 1784. L'Heritier: Stirpes Novæ, &c. Folio. Full of fine plates.--_City._ 1787. Curtis: The renowned "Botanical Magazine" was commenced this year. No Manchester library contains the whole. The following are the localities of all the town possesses, including a portion in the "Royal Exchange":--1787-1842, vols. 1 to 68, _City_; 1843-1859, vols. 69 to 85, _Royal Exchange_; 1860-1869, vols. 86 to 95, nowhere; 1870-1882, vols. 96 onwards to present time, _City._ 1790-1814. Smith and Sowerby's "English Botany." Thirty-six vols., 8vo. 2,592 coloured plates.--_City, P. P._ 1800. Desfontaines. Flora Atlantica. Four vols., 4to. Contains 261 fine old plates.--_City._ 1816. W. J. Hooker: The British Jungermannias. 4to. Full of exquisite coloured plates.--_City._ 1818-1833. Loddiges: The Botanical Cabinet. Contains 2,000 coloured plates.--_P. P._ 1823. Alex. Humboldt: Melastomaceæ. 64 very fine coloured plates.--_P. P._ 1823-1827. W. J. Hooker: Exotic Flora. Three vols., 8vo. 232 beautiful coloured plates.--_City._ 1827. W. J. Hooker and T. Taylor: Muscologia Britannica. Exquisitely illustrated.--_City._ 1828. Curtis's Flora Londinensis. Continued by W. J. Hooker. Two vols., folio. Most beautiful plates.--_City._ 1828. Wm. Roscoe: Monandrian Plants. Atlas folio. Contains 112 splendid coloured plates.--_Chet._