1882 British Wild Flowers

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, eighty-nine hand-coloured plates, and two monochrome plates.

Collated, complete.

This work is intended as a reference guide to the amaeatuer botanist, the field-botanist, the country resident, or the summer rambler. It offers information of a wide variety of wild flowers that can be found in the British countryside, offering a little scientific information to accompany it.

Illustrated by John E. Sowerby Sowerby was a botanical illustrator who inherited a taste for botanical drawing from his grandfather, James Sowerby. He also illustrated 'Illustrated Catalogue of British Plants', 'An Illustrated Key to the Natural Orders of British Wild Flowers', 'The Ferns of Great Britain', and more.

Written by C. Pierpoint Johnson.