Nationality United Kingdom Name Priscilla Bury | Role Botanist | |
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Full Name Priscilla Susan Falkner Born 12 January 1799 ( 1799-01-12 ) Liverpool, England Occupation botanist and illustrator Died March 8, 1872, Croydon, United Kingdom Spouse Edward Bury (m. 1830–1858) | ||
Priscilla Susan Bury, born Falkner (12 January 1799 Liverpool – 8 March 1872 Croydon), was an English botanist and illustrator.
Daughter of a rich Liverpool merchant, she married on 4 March 1830 Edward Bury (1794-1858), a noted railway engineer. Working with amateur botanist William Roscoe (1753-1831), she published in 1831-1834 A Selection of Hexandrian Plants. The engraving was entrusted to the Londoner Robert Havell, engraver of the John James Audubon (1785-1851) plates. The book was carried out in aquatint and the 350 plant drawings painted in part by hand. The subscribers to this large folio numbered only 79, mostly from the Lancashire region, Audubon being one of them. The book was described as "one of the most effective colour-plate folios of its period" by Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt in his The Art of Botanical Illustration.
Bury was also the author of illustrations for The Botanist of Benjamin Maund (1790-1863).