# The Botanical Register

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{{Short description|British horticultural magazine (ran 1815–1847)}}
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thumb|right|Frontispiece of Volume I
'''''The Botanical Register''''', subsequently known as '''''Edwards's Botanical Register''''', was an illustrated [horticultural](/source/Horticulture) magazine that ran from 1815 to 1847. It was started by the [botanical illustrator](/source/botanical_illustrator) [Sydenham Edwards](/source/Sydenham_Edwards), who had previously illustrated ''[The Botanical Magazine](/source/The_Botanical_Magazine)'', but left after a dispute with the editors. Edwards edited five volumes of ''The Botanical Register'' in five years, before his death in 1819. During this period, the text was provided by [John Bellenden Ker Gawler](/source/John_Bellenden_Ker_Gawler), and Edwards himself provided paintings, which were engraved and hand-coloured by others.

After Edwards' death, editorial duties passed to the publisher, [James Ridgway](/source/James_Ridgway), who issued a further nine volumes between 1820 and 1828. In 1829, [John Lindley](/source/John_Lindley) was appointed editor, and he adopted the title ''Edwards's Botanical Register''. A further nineteen volumes were issued before the magazine was discontinued in 1847. [Sarah Drake](/source/Sarah_Drake) contributed over 1000 illustrations to the magazine. In 1839, Lindley also issued an ''Appendix to the First Twenty-Three Volumes of Edwards's Botanical Register'', which included his ''[A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony](/source/A_Sketch_of_the_Vegetation_of_the_Swan_River_Colony)''.

==References==
{{wikisource|The Botanical Register}}
{{wikisource|Edwards's Botanical Register}}
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* {{cite book | first = Helen | last = Hewson | year = 2006 | title = Australia: 300 years of botanical illustration | location = Collingwood, Victoria | publisher = [CSIRO Publishing](/source/CSIRO_Publishing) | isbn = 0-643-06366-8}}

==External links==
* [http://www.botanicus.org/item/31753002748199 ''The Botanical Register''] [Botanicus](/source/Botanicus)
* [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/382#/summary ''The Botanical Register''] [BHL](/source/Biodiversity_Heritage_Library)

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Category:19th-century publications
Category:Horticultural magazines published in the United Kingdom
Category:Botany journals
Category:Magazines established in 1815
Category:Magazines disestablished in 1847
Category:1815 establishments in the United Kingdom
Category:Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom
Category:1847 disestablishments in the United Kingdom

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