British Flowering Plants. Illustrated by Three Hundred Full-Page Coloured Plates Reproduced from Drawings by Mrs Henry Perrin.

  • Boulger, G.S.
  • London: Bernard Quaritch 1914

£180

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Description

FIRST EDITION, NO. 698 OF 1000 COPIES, folio, 4 vols., pp. xlvi; viii; x; viii + a total of 300 plates each with a leaf of letterpress. Original cream cloth boards, spine and boards lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A touch of spotting. A few light marks to bindings. Gift inscription dated 1927 to initial blank.

Notes

A beautiful collection of 300 life-size botanical watercolour illustrations of British flora by botanical artist, Ida Southwell Perrin (1861-1953). The text details each plant's history and taxonomy, and was composed by botanist George Simonds Boulger (1853-1922), professor of Natural History and the Kew Gardens Correspondent for the Times.

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