Benjamin Maund's The Botanist was a five-volume series that introduced 250 new plants from 1836 to 1842. The series is notable for its many female artists: the plates were drawn by Maund's daughters Sarah and Eliza; Augusta Withers; Priscilla Bury; Jane Taylor; Miss R. Mills among others. The other characteristic is partial colouring - many of the finely detailed copperplate engravings are left with part of the flower and leaves uncoloured.Priscilla Bury (1793~1869): Priscilla Faulkner was the daughter of a rich Liverpool merchant and grew up in the family's house at Fairfield. Like many young women of her class; Priscilla began painting flowers from a young age; particularly the exotic flowers growing in the hothouses on the estate. In 1830; she married Liverpool railway baron Edward Bury; and with his financial support; published A Selection of Hexandrian Plants containing 51 plates of lilies; amaryllis and crinums. The book was privately printed (only 79 subscribers) and is regarded as one of the finest works of the period devoted to a particular group of plants.Illustration drawn by Mrs. E. Bury from a specimen of Liverpool Botanical Garden.