SOWERBY, John Edward and Charles Pierpoint JOHNSON. British Wild Flowers; Described, with an Introduction and a Key to the Natural Orders; To Which is Added a Supplement Containing 180 Figures of Lately Discovered Flowering Plants by John W. Salter, and the Ferns, Horsetails, and Club-Mosses by John E. Sowerby, London: John Van Voorst. 1860.
Royal 8vo. Sometime rebound in half green morocco, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled; pp. xlix, [iii], 168, hand-coloured frontispiece, two uncoloured plates, and 80 hand-coloured plates by Sowerby; previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, signatures to prelim, a little spotting mainly to prelims, otherwise very clean, very good.
First edition. This is a classic Victorian botanical book, highly popular throughout the second half of the nineteenth century. It is beautifully produced and fascinatingly detailed on its subject.
Nissen BBI 997.
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