1899-1900 The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges and Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies the Club Mosses, Horsetails, &c.

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding

A new edition of this richly illustrated series, complete in four volumes.

Uniformly bound in attractive half morocco, with cloth boards and marbled endpapers. 

Illustrated with seventy-seven plates to volume I; seventy-five to volume II; seventy-nine to volume III, and eighty-eight to volume IV. Collated, complete. 

'Flowering Plants' is the magnum opus of botanical and ornithological illustrator and author, Anne Pratt, a project which explores more than 1,500 species, published over the course of a decade. 

Pratt utilised an affordable method of chromolithography in order to create the wonderful coloured illustrations throughout.

The resulting colour plates, of which there are plenty, offer a lovely visual aid throughout the volumes. 

With examinations of an array of species found in Great Britain, designed to be accessible and used as a standard reference work. 

With a 'Somerville Prize for Botany' bookplate from South Hampstead High School to the front pastedowns.