and an extensive bibliography
short closed tear to bottom edge of the front panel
Laminate pictorial boards with lettering in white to front and spine
and twenty-three drawings in black and white
Vases of the Finest Period
The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworths and Horsetails ensigns and an extensive bibliographyLondon: Frederick Warne, 1899. New edition, in four volumes, wholly revised by Edward Step. Royal 8vo (10 x 6. 5 ins); pp. xiv, (1), 269; xii, 279; xi, 258; xi, 213. 319 coloured plates and 5 uncoloured plates in total, including the frontispieces (with tissue guards). Original decorative Art Nouveau cloth, gilt title lettering to front and spines, top edges gilt. Ex. libris Violet Ormonde Matthews with ink inscription dated 1899 to front of vol I.