> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 264](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120395) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/16309-1) LSID 16309-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2556630) QID Q2556630 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Bolton, James (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Bolton, James (x-1799), British botanist at Halifax. **Abbreviated name**: *Bolton* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bolton*\] #### Herbarium and types No herbarium specimens known. Original drawings of ferns and fungi at [[Collection BM|BM]]; manuscript of icones fungorum at [[Collection USDA|USDA]]. Eighteen water-colours on vellum at [[Collection HU|HU]] (see HU 742). A set of 50 watercolours is at [[Collection BM|BM]]: "Fifty flowers drawn from nature, at Halifax..." 1785-1787. Fol. (with mss title and preface). *Ref*.: BB p. 37; BM 1: 192; HU 742. - Shear, Trans. Brit. mycol. Soc. 17: 302-307. 1933. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 214; BB p. 37; BM 1: 192; DNB 5: 327; IF p. 682; Jackson p. 239, 253, 344; Kew 1: 290; LS 3294-3295; NI 194-196; PR 961-962. - Crump, The Halifax naturalist 6: xlviii-liv. 1902. - Turner, Halifax books and authors 60-61. 1906 (n.v., fide Barnhart). - Crossland, An eighteenth century naturalist. Halifax 1910. - Barnhart NAF 9(6): 430. 1916. - Shear, Trans. Brit. mycol. Soc. 17: 302-307. 1932 (on the USDA mss of B's Icones fungorum). - Moorhouse, J. Bot. 79: 156-158. 1941 (on James and Thomas B.) - Rickett, NAF 1(1): 155. 1949. - Nissen, Illustr. Vogelbücher 93. 1953 (Harmonia ruralis). - Stafleu, *in* L'Héritier, Sertum angl. facs. ed. 1963, p. xxvii. #### Eponymy *Boltonia* L'Héritier de Brutelle (1789). ### Publications ##### n.622. Filices britannicae **Title** *Filices britannicae*; an history of the British proper ferns. With plain and accurate descriptions, and new figures of all the species and varieties, taken from an immediate and careful inspection of the plants in their natural state, and engraved on thirty-one copper-plates: with the particular places noted where each species was lately gathered, and are at this time growing in the North of England, or on the Mountains of Wales. Leeds (J. Binns) \[1785\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Fil. brit.* **Notes** *Part 1*: After 16 Aug 1785, (date on p. xvi; Crit. Rev. Jan 1786), p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-59, \[60-63, ind.\], *pl. 1-31*, hand-coloured copper engravings by the author. *Copy*: HH. *Part 2*: *Filices*... ferns. *Part the second*. With... species, taken...state, drawn of their natural size, and accurately enengraved. Including an appendix to the former part of this work, by which the whole is completed. Huddersfield (for the author by J. Brook) 1790. QU., p. \[i\*\], \[xvii\]-xxii, \[59\*\]-81, \[82, ind.\]. *pl. 32-46*, hand-coloured copper engravings by the author, published after 16 Oct 1790, date on p. xxii. *Copy*: HH. – Original drawings for the plates at BM. *Ref*.: BM 1: 192; Henrey 464; IF p. 682; NI 194; PR 961. - Dryander, Cat. bibl. hist. nat. Banks 3: 220, 5: 73. - Anon., Monthly Rev. London 76: 129-132. Feb 1787. ##### n.623. An history of fungusses, growing about Halifax **Title** *An history of fungusses, growing about Halifax*. With forty-four copper-plates; on which are engraved fifty-one species of agarics: Wherein their varieties, and various appearances in the different stages of growth, are faithfully exhibited in more than two hundred figures, copled with great care from the plants, when newly gathered and in a state of perfection. With a particular description of each species in all its stages, from the first appearance to the utter decay of the plant; with the time they were gathered; the soil and situation in which they grew; their duration; and the particular places mentioned, where all the new and rare species were found. The whole being a plain recital of facts, the results of more than twenty years observation. Halifax (author, sold by J. Milner) \[vol. 1\]; Huddersfield (printed for the author by J. Brook and sold by B. White and Son) \[2, 3, app.\]; 1788-1791, 4 vols. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist. fung. Halifax*. **Notes** |vol. |pages |*plates* |date| |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 (Halifax) |\[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-44, \[2, ind.\], errata slip |1-43 \[44\] engr. t.p. |Mai 1788| |2 (Huddersfield) |\[i\*\], \[xvii\]-xxv, \[45\]-92, \[1, ind.\] |45-92 |Nov 1788| |3 (Huddersfield) |\[i\*\], \[xxvii\]-xxxii, 93-138, \[4, ind.\] |93-138 |1790<br/>(p. xxxii: 12 Dec 1789, p. 182 '1790'; t.p. 1789)| |Appendix (Huddersfield) |\[i\*\], \[xxxiii\]-xlii, 139-181, \[12, ind.\] |139-181 |Jun 1792<br/>(t.p. 1791; p. xliii: 31 Dec 1791)| The above analysis is based on a copy with hand coloured plates in the Stevenson library. There were two issues: plates coloured and plates plain (copper engravings by the author). Other *copies*: NY (plain), MICH (col.), L (vol. 3). *Vol. I.*The additional t.p. to vol. 1, engraved and coloured, reads: "Historia fungorum circa Halifax sponte nascentium." *Vol. 2*, title: "... forty-eight copper plates... fifty-four species of fungusses, viz. the remainder of the Agarics, with the three succeeding genera, Boletus, Hydrum and Phallus: wherein their various appearances..." *Vol. 3*, title: "...forty-six copper plates... sixty-four species of fungusses, including the seven following genera, viz. Clathrus, Helvella, Peziza, Clavaria, Lypoperdon, Sphaeria and Mucor. Wherein... in about three hundred figures, copied..." *App*.: title: "An appendix or supplement to the History... Halifax: by which the work is compleated in four volumes. Containing one hundred and eighty-two copper plates; on which are engraved two hundred and thirty-one species of fungusses, exhibited in about nine hundred figures: all drawn, engraved and coloured by the author. With a particular...." For the *German translation* see next entry. *Ref*.: BM 1: 192; Henrey p. 465; Jackson p. 253; Kew 1: 290; NI 195; PR 962. - Rickett, NAF 1(1): 155. 1949. - Shear, Trans. brit. mycol. Soc. 17: 302-207. 1931. - Laplanche, Diet, iconogr. champignons 1894 (correlation with Friesian names). - Anon., Monthly Review 1: 460-461. Nov 1788, 8: 179-185. 1792. ##### n.624. Geschichte der merckwürdigsten Pilze **Title** Jacob Boltons *Geschichte der merckwürdigsten Pilze* mit 44 \[48, 46, 44\] illuminierten Kupfern Iter \[-IV\] Theil. Aus dem Englischen mit Anmerkungen von D. Carl Ludw. Willdenow. Berlin (1-3: Pauli, 4: G. Reimer) 1795\[-1820\], 4 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Gesch. merckw. Pilze*. **Notes** *Editor and author of notes vols. 1-3*: Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1842). *Idem vol. 4*: Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776-1858) and Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck (1787-1837). |vol. |pages |*plates* |date| |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |\[i\]-xii, \[1\]-68 |1-44<br/>engr. t.p. |Aug 1795<br/>p. xii: 14 Mar 1795| |2 |\[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-72 |45-92 |Jun 1797<br/>p. vi: 14 Dec 1796| |3 |\[i\]-xiv, \[1\]-80 |93-138 |Aug 1799<br/>p. iv: 8 Feb 1799| |4 |\[i\*\], \[i\]-clxxx,<br/>\[i\], \[1\]-80,<br/>\[38, ind.\], \[1, corr.\] |139-182 |Dec 1820| The above analysis is based on a copy with hand coloured plates in the Stevenson library. Copies vary in binding. Other *coples*: B, BR, NY. – Data based on documentation BH. *Vol. 1*, engraved t.p., as above *Vol. 2*, printed t.p. "... mit 48..." *Vol. 3*, printed t.p. "... mit 46..." *Vol. 4*, has three t.p.'s: *a*: *printed*. "Jacob... Willdenow. IV Theil, Anhänge und Nachträge. Mit 44 illuminierten Kupfern. Fortgesetzt und mit einer Einleitung und einer erklärenden Übersicht sämmtlicher Tafeln versehen von Dr. Ch. G. Nees von Esenbeck und Dr. Th. Fr. Ludw. Nees von Esenbeck. Berlin Bey G. Reimer 1820." *b*: *printed*, new t.p. for entire work, issued 1820, bound in various places: "Beschreibung der um Halifax wachsende Pilze, enthaltend 241 Pilzarten in 900 Figuren auf 182 Kupfertafeln, alle von dem Verfasser... gegründet von James Bolton... Aus dem Englischen mit Anmerkungen von Carl Ludwig Willdenow. Fortgesetzt... von... Esenbeck. Berlin... 1820." *c*: *engraved*, "Historia fungorum circa Halifax sponte nascentium tomi iv, A. Agaricus ...L. Mucor." *Ref*.: BM 1: 192; LS 3294; NI 196; PR 962. - Barnhart, NAF 9(6): 430. 1916.