British Wild Flowers ... described, with an introduction and key to the natural order by C. Pierpoint Johnson.
London: John Van Voorst, (1863. second edition). Octavo, frontispiece and 86 handcoloured steel engraved plates. Handsome contemporary full gilt morocco, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, two nineteenth century ownership inscriptions (one dated 1863), an occasional spot, otherwise a fine crisp copy. The expanded reissue of Sowerby's classic work on British..... More