Wild Flowers..
Original green cloth with blind-embossed decoration, gilt. Rather shaken and worn at extremities. With the exception of the very first leaf which is rather creased and torn at the head and fore-edge, the contents are clean and undamaged with only occasional foxing.
£75.00
Publisher
S.P.C.K., London.,
Date
1853
Item Description
Folio. [iv] + 96 leaves printed recto only, depicting in wood-engravings, 192 British wild flowers, two per page with descriptions. Uncoloured.
Notes
The leaves were originally sold singly at three farthings plain or twopence coloured but the series could be bought, bound up, at eight shillings plain or eighteen shillings coloured.
[Stock No. 13638]
Subjects
19th Century • Botany • British • Illustrated • Natural History/Science