1823 The Wonders of Trees, Plants, and Shrubs, Recorded in Anecdotes

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound, Scarce, Signed Binding

The later 1823 issue of this work, dated via the plates. This volume was first published in 1812.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and five further engraved plates. Collated, complete.

Joseph Taylor, a prolific English writer and compiler of books on a variety of subjects, including nature, supernatural phenomena, weather, and historical curiosities, presents a guide to the trees, plants and shrubs of the world, with charming and sometimes amusing discussion of the cocoa tree, the baobab tree, the camphor tree, the royal oak, the zea and others.

In a quarter morocco binding by the Ipsley bindery, with endpapers renewed.