Stephenson, John & Churchill, James Morris; Medical Botany: or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Pharmacopoeias; Comprising a Popular and Scientific Account of all those Poisonous Vegetables that are Indigenous to Great Britain. 4 volumes, London, John Churchill, 1831. Quarto, vol. 1, pp. approximately 380 pages per volume (the pages are not numbered) with a total of 187 hand-colored plates numbered 1 through 185 with 2 not numbered and 7 being double page.

The four volume set is complete with half titles and all plates present. The set is bound in a modern full calf with raised spine bands and gilt titles. The bindings are tight and very clean. The text has occasional light age toning to margins of pages and margins of a few plates. Over all the text and plates are exceptionally clean. A very good complete set.
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Medical Botany by Stephenson and Churchill ranks with Sowerby and Edwards as one of the most well written botanical works of the 19th Century. In terms of its colored plates, the work is by far the most beautiful. In addition to the beautiful plates the work is also a serious medical and botanical text. Each plant is described in detail and often includes the exact doses for specific medicines. The description for each plant includes detailed physical characteristics, medicinal properties and uses, chemical properties, adulterations, medical properties, internal use and dosages and external uses.