1925 Flowers of the Field

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated

The thirty-fifth edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.

Previous owner's ink inscription to the front paste down.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and sixty-three further colour plates based on watercolours by Stackhouse and numerous in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.

First published in 1851, Flowers of the Field was so successful that more than fifty editions were printed; indeed, it was still in print a century after it was first published. Considered as the "bible of the amateur botanist," it is now a standard reference work, providing information on English plants and their uses. Johns gives both common and Latin names following the Linnaean system.

This edition was revised by G. S. Boulger, with a memoir of the original author Charles Alexander Johns.