- Anne Pratt
, London.
Anne Pratt wrote more than 20 books which she illustrated with
chromolithograph s. [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/exhibitions/botex/popbot.html Popular Botany in the Nineteenth Century ] ] . Anne Pratt's works were written in popular style but were said to be accurate. She was responsible for the popularising of Botany. She never achieved critical acclaim on the grounds that she was self taught. [http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/hort/women.htm The University of Delaware: The Art of Botanical Illustration. Women Illustrators ] ] She collaborated with William Dickes, an engraver skilled in theelected works
* "The field, the garden, and the woodland", published in 1838.
* "The Pictorial Catechism of Botany". Suttaby and Co, London, 1842.
* "The ferns of Great Britain", c. 1850
* "Wild Flowers" 1852 (2 vols.) Also published as classroom wall hangings.
* "Poisonous, Noxious, and Suspected Plants, of our Fields and Woods". 1857
* "The flowering plants, grasses, sedges, and ferns of Great Britain and their allies the club mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails"., 1855-1866, 5 vols. London: Frederick Warne and Co. A sixth vol was added in 1873, on the grasses sedges and ferns.It was promoted by The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK). The original 5 volumes were titled The Flowering Plants of Great Britain.
* The Language of Flowers the Associations of Flowers Popular Tales of Flowers, with Thomas Miller, Simpkin & Co Limited, London. 1846
* "Chapters on Common Things of the Sea-side", S.P.C.K., 1850.
* "Our Native Songsters", SPCK, 1857.
* "Haunts of the Wild Flowers". Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1863
* "The Garden Flowers of The Year", Religious Tract Society, 1846
* "Wild Flowers of The Year", Religious Tract Society, 1846References
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