1925 Flowers of the Field

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

The thirty-fifth edition. 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. Written by Charles Alexander Johns, a British botanist and educator who was the author of a long series of popular books on natural history. This edition was revised, with a memoir of the author, by George Simonds Boulger, an English botanist who wrote articles as the Kew Gardens Correspondent of The Times.