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SUMMARY:Printing\, publishing and circulating books across Joseph Banks's 
 empire - Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
DTSTART:20190204T130000Z
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CONTACT:Laura Brassington
DESCRIPTION:The publication Joseph Banks (1743–1820) is remembered for i
 s the _Florilegium_\, a series of copperplates that represent the plants h
 e and Daniel Solander (1733–1782) collected during the _Endeavour_ voyag
 e to the Pacific (1768–1771)\, which remained unpublished until the 1980
 s. However\, from the early 1780s\, Banks published and oversaw the produc
 tion of several works concerning the botany of the West Indies\, Japan\, I
 ndia\, China\, Africa and species cultivated in Kew Gardens.\n\nThis talk 
 concentrates on two of Banks's books\, _Reliquiæ Houstounianæ_ (1781)\, 
 on the plants of the West Indies\, and _Icones Selectæ Plantarum_ (1791)\
 , on the plants of Japan. Initially\, I examine the processes employed to 
 produce a work of natural history in the late 18th century. Banks's public
 ations were privately printed\, using the highest quality materials and mo
 st skilled craftsmen available in London. Secondly\, I examine the distrib
 ution of these materials. Banks had a small number of copies printed that 
 he circulated to a specific group within the Republic of Letters and to th
 ose undertaking fieldwork in Asia and the West Indies. An analysis of thes
 e publications from their inception to distribution gives a new understand
 ing of the methods and incentives for producing and circulating a work of 
 natural history in late 18th-century Britain.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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