Priscilla Susan Bury

Priscilla Susan Bury
Born	Priscilla Susan Falkner 12 January 1799(1799-01-12) Liverpool, England
Died	8 March 1872(1872-03-08) (aged 73) Croydon, England
Nationality	United Kingdom
Occupation	botanist and illustrator
Spouse	Edward Bury

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. Bury was also the author of illustrations for The Botanist of Benjamin Maund (1790-1863). ^[1]

The standard author abbreviation Bury is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]

Source

Brent Elliott (2001). Flora. Une histoire illustrée des fleurs de jardin. Delachaux et Niestlé (Lausanne) : 335 p.

External links

Saint Louis Art Museum General background. Image from Hexandrian Plants
A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, Belonging to the Natural Orders Amaryllidae and Liliacae (1831-1834) at Botanicus.

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Name	Bury, Priscilla Susan
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Date of birth	12 January 1799
Place of birth	Liverpool, England
Date of death	8 March 1872
Place of death	Croydon, England