Wild Flowers: Where To Find And How To Know Them

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1860s (1869?). 4th Edition. George Routledge. Hardback. Dark green cloth boards, with black lettering, and impressed borders and lettering on front cover. Detailed descriptions of wild plants, with their classification, and an account month by month of where to find wildflower plants (British), and of their uses, economic and medicinal. Illustrated by Noel Humphreys (1810-1879), naturalist, scholar and noted illustrator, with 8 colour plates and 171 detailed botanical drawings throughout. List of Plates and Floral Illustrations. Index included. Slight splits to front and rear cover boards, but binding still secure and no loose pages. Spine ends bumped, fading to spine edges, slight fabric tears to spine edge, especially at bottom right edge. Spine darkened. Rubs to both cover boards, with colour lightening to front cover. Some marks on pages. Bumping to corners of covers, and rubs to cover edges. Tanning and darkening to page edges. Pages lightly tanned but bright and clear. Numerous

16 GBP