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[Satire of the Medico-Botanical Society] Lines Addressed to the Medico-Botanico-Bombastico Society.
London, Dec. 10, 1829.
1pp. letterpress, 245 x 145mm (9¾ x 5¾"). Creasing, small area of loss of text, laid on album paper.
A satirical verse about the Medico-Botanical Society, a society founded in 1821 to research the medicinal properties of plants. It attacks the founder and director, Dr John Frost, as a charletan, and describes one of the main patrons Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl, as a dupe. In 1830 Stanhope, who was serving as president of the society, finally had enough of Frost's arrogance and expelled him from his own society.
Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 67066] £160.00
1pp. letterpress, 245 x 145mm (9¾ x 5¾"). Creasing, small area of loss of text, laid on album paper.
A satirical verse about the Medico-Botanical Society, a society founded in 1821 to research the medicinal properties of plants. It attacks the founder and director, Dr John Frost, as a charletan, and describes one of the main patrons Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl, as a dupe. In 1830 Stanhope, who was serving as president of the society, finally had enough of Frost's arrogance and expelled him from his own society.
Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 67066] £160.00