The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworths and Horsetails ensigns Laminate pictorial boards with lettering

Laminate pictorial boards with lettering in white to front and spine

short closed tear to bottom edge of the front panel

Original red cloth with black lettering

Cet ouvrage a été publié en Angleterre pour accompagner la sêrie televisée de la BBC

Head of spine very slightly creased

The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworths and Horsetails ensigns Laminate pictorial boards with letteringLondon: Frederick Warne, 1899. New edition, in four volumes, wholly revised by Edward Step. Royal 8vo (10 x 6. 5 ins); pp. xiv, (1), 269; xii, 279; xi, 258; xi, 213. 319 coloured plates and 5 uncoloured plates in total, including the frontispieces (with tissue guards). Original decorative Art Nouveau cloth, gilt title lettering to front and spines, top edges gilt. Ex. libris Violet Ormonde Matthews with ink inscription dated 1899 to front of vol I.