Antedating of "Monograph"

[Fred Shapiro]

monograph (OED3 1804)

1797 William Curtis _Botanical Magazine_ XI. 363 (Eighteenth Century
Collections Online)  Prof. JACQUIN has given us a monograph on the genus
_Oxalis_.

Fred Shapiro


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