> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 723](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333862) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9872-1) LSID 9872-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8018602) QID Q8018602 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sole, William (1741-1802), British apothecary and botanist at Bath. **Abbreviated name**: *Sole* \[standard form in IPNI: *Sole*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection LIV|LIV]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection YRK|YRK]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 301 (err. b. 1739); BB p. 282; BM 4: 1967; Clokie p. 246; Desmond p. 573 (b. Jun 1741, d. 7 Feb 1802); DNB 53: 213 (18: 621); DU 289; Henrey 2: 151-154, 3: no. 1362; Herder p. 311; Hortus 3: 1204; Jackson p. 238; NI 1869; Plesch p. 412; PR 8763, ed. 1: 9739; Sotheby 711; Zander ed. 10, p. 718-719, ed. 11, p. 820. #### Biofile - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 234, 255.248, 337.14. 1980. - Curtis, S., William Curtis 1746-1799, p. 29, 39, 48, 94, 112. 1943. - Dawson, W.R., Smith letters 87. 1934. - Druce, W., Rep. Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isl. 4(1): 50. 1915 (annotated copy Menth. brit.; see also Savage 1938). - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 79. 1957 (coll. at LINN, OXF). - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish Herb. 247. 1984. - Riddelsdell, H.J., Fl. Gloucestershire cxiii. 1948. - Savage, S., Proc. Linn. Soc. London 150: 52-58. 1938 (annotated copy Menth. brit.). - White, J.W., Fl. Bristol 72-73. 1872. #### Eponymy *Solea* K.P.J. Sprengel (1802). ### Publications ##### n.12.353. Menthae britannicae **Title** *Menthae britannicae*: being a new botanical arrangement of all the British mints hitherto discovered. Illustrated with twenty-four copper-plates, of the natural size, done from the life by able artists; exhibiting a figure of every distinct mint herein treated of, including all those enumerated by Ray and Hudson; together with several new species hitherto unnoticed. By W. Sole. Bath (printed by R. Cruttwell;...) 1798. Qu. (in twos). **Abbreviated title**: *Menth. brit.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 13-28 Jul 1798 (preface dated 13 Jul 1798; a copy was sent by the author to J.E. Smith on 20 Jul 1798; see also Savage (1938)), p. \[i\]-viii, p. \[1\]-55, \[56, err.\], *pl. 1-24* (dated 1797; uncol. copp. by J. Hewlett, M. Milgrowe, T. Robins, T. Sheppard, Miss J. Smith). *Copies*: BR, G, HU, MO, NY, PH, TCD, USDA. – See HU 752 for an analytic bibliographical analysis and further details.