> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 370](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212412) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10693-1) LSID 10693-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21610781) QID Q21610781 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Titford, William Jowit (Jowett\] (1784-1823/7?), Jamaica-born British accountant of London and Master in Chancery, Jamaica; in Jamaica 1805-1807; travelled in North America and the West Indies 1807-1809; studied with D. Hosack at Columbia College, New York 1809-1810; returned to England 1810, publishing his Hortus 1810-1812; in Jamaica 1813-1815; in London 1815-1822, ultimately again in Jamaica. **Abbreviated name**: *Titford* \[standard form in IPNI: *Titford*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 387; BB p. 301-302; BM 5: 2117; Desmond p. 613; DU 256; GF p. 78; Jackson p. 354; Langman p. 738; Plesch p. 436; PR 9370, ed. 1: 10334; Rehder 3: 62; SO 798b; Sotheby 757; Tucker 1: 692. #### Biofile - MacPhail, L, Huntia 1: 117-135. 1964 (main bibl. study of *Hortus*, collections, anal. bibl.). - Titford, A.R., J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 5(5): 392. 1970, 8(2): 120-142. 1977 (main biogr. study and account of *Sketches*, handwriting); *in* History in the service of systematics 19. 1981. #### Handwriting J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 8(2): 129-140. 1977. ### Publications ##### n.14.606. hortus botanicus americanus **Title** Sketches towards a *hortus botanicus americanus*; or, coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America. Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies: arranged after the Linnaean system. With a concise and comprehensive glossary of terms, prefixed, and a general index. By W.J. Titford,... London (printed for the author, by C. Stower, Hackney,...) 1811 \[-1812\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Hort. bot. amer.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct 1811-Dec 1812 (six parts). Copies differ in composition; for a complete bibliographical study see Mac Phail (1964), for further details see Titford (1977). We give here the pagination and plates of the copy at G: *frontisp*. (col. aquatint), p. \[i\*\], i-xvi, \[i\]-vi, \[4\]-132, \[i\]-iv, *err*.; *pl. 1*, \[i\]-ii. *pl. 2*, \[i\]-ii. *pl. 3*, \[i\]-ii. *pl. 4*, \[i\]-ii. *pl*. 5, \[i\]-ii. *pl. 6*, \[i\]. *pl. 7*, \[i\]-iii. *pl. 8*, \[i\]-ii. *pl. 9*, \[i\]-ii. *pl. 10*, iii-v. *pl. 11*, vi-vii. *pl. 12*, ix-x. *pl. 13*, xi-xii. *pl. 14*, xiii. *pl. 15-17*, xiv, expl. pl.; \[cxxxiii\]-cxxxvii, ind.; \[1-4, English index\]; \[1\]-4 list subscribers. *Copies*: *G*, HH, KU, MICH, MO(3), PH, US, USDA; IDC 7629. *Fasc. 1*: 1 Oct 1811, t.p., dedic, pref., gloss. *pl. 1-4* w.t. *Fasc. 2*: Dec 1811, Linn. meth., medical virtues, classes (F2-H2), *pl. 5-8.* w.t. *Fasc. 3*: Dec 1812, classes (11-02), *pl. 9-11.* w.t. *Fasc. 4*: Dec 1812, classes (P1-S2), *pl. 12-13. w.t.*, frontisp. *Fasc*. 5: Dec 1812, classes (T1-2C1), *pl. 14-17.* w.t. *Fasc. 6*: Dec 1812, classes (2D1-2E1), app., add., tabl. clim., adv. (A1-A4), nosol. index, English index.