Smith's Grammar of Botany, the First American Book with Lithographed Illustrations

In 1822 publisher James V. Seaman of New York issued Henry Muhlenberg's expanded edition of James Edward Smith's A Grammar of Botany, Illustrative of Artificial, as Well as Natural Classification with an Explanation of Jussieu's System. The book had first appeared in London in 1821. The first American edition contained 21 black & white plates lithographed by William Armand Barnet and Isaac Doolittle, who had received lithographic training in France, and had opened their lithography business, Barnet & Doolittle, at 23 Lumber Street in New York. "Barnet was the son of the American consul in Paris and Doolittle was a mechanic with an interest in steamboats. Together they studied lithography and arrived in New York in the fall of 1821" (Barnhill, Commercial Nineteenth-Century American Lithography: An Economic History [2010] 3).

Apparently some copies were issued with the plates hand-colored because the copy digitized by Google Books contains hand-colored plates, two of which are reproduced here.