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 regard