The Flowering Plants of Great Britain

by PRATT, Anne

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Book description: London: Frederick Warne, [c. 1885]. Three octavo volumes (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 159 mm). Complete with 240 chromolithographs and one uncolored lithograph.Publisher's full green cloth, single-fillet borders rolled in black, side titles blocked in gilt, smooth spines lettered in gilt, black endpapers, top edges gilt. Occasional very light foxing. One signature detached in volume 2, else a very good copy.A handsome three-volume edition of Pratt's classic and popular work, originally published in 1850."The most widely-used book on English wild flowers for half a century. A very popular Victorian work" (Wilfrid Blunt, in Sitwell).Sitwell, Great Flower Books 1700-1900, p. 127.

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