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1862 The Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The second edition of this work.
Anne Pratt's beautiful botanical work studying the cultivation and lives of ferns, looking into their allies such as club-mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails.
Illustrated with forty-one chromolithograph plates.
Collated, complete.
Anne Pratt was a popular botanical illustrator in Victorian England. She wrote many books on botanicas, with the most popular being 'The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworts, and Horsetails', a six volume set that took twelve years to publish in full. Though her illustrations were popular at the time and brought a love of nature to many, she's sadly never received great acclaim or recognition, as she was a self-taught woman.
Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper, 'G. S. Ellis Haystone'.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Spine and extremities are a little faded. Light marks to the boards and spine. Minor bumping to the spine and extremities. Head of the spine is lifting a little with a small amount of loss. Bookseller's label to the rear paste down. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with just a few odd spots.
Good
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