Robert John Thornton, The temple of Flora, or garden of the botanist, poet, painter and philosopher, London, printed for the publisher by T Bensley, 1799–1807, Rare Books collection, 

The temple of Flora is the third volume of Robert Thornton’s massive work, New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus. Inspired by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, whose system of plant classification revolutionised botany, Thornton was determined to produce a British work that would surpass the scholarship of German botanical texts and the artistry of those from France.