POPULAR SERIES OF ILLUSTRATED WORKS
5 Henrietta St
Covent Gardens
Dec 20
Sir
We only Know of one work that Sir W Hooker has published on Mosses, Muscologia Britannica <1> 8o Cloth £1·11·6 Plain £3·3· Cold Sowerbys Minerology <2> as [illegible] 10/6 book
yrs obediently
R Lovell
for L Reeve
H F Talbot Esq
[envelope:]
H Fox Talbot Esq
Greta Bank
Keswick
Cumberland
Notes:
1. Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), Prof & botanist, Muscologia Britannica; containing the mosses of Great Britain & Ireland, by W.J. Hooker and T. Taylor (London, 1818).
2. James Sowerby (1757–1822), artist and scientific illustrator, British mineralogy (1804–1817) and Exotic mineralogy (1811).