Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 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