The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain: Volume II by Anne Pratt - 1860 (Circa)

London:: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,, n.d.. contemporary gilt calf-backed cloth.. A few leaves at the beginning and end of each volume slightly foxed; light rubbing to the bindings; a very nice set.. 8vo,. Profusely illustrated with botanical color plates.

London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, 1899. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Undated, circa 1899. Volume VI is entitled "The British Grasses, Sedges, Ferns and their Allies The Club Mosses, Pepperworts, and Horsetails". This set has been carefully and professionally rebound with brown calf over the spines with three raised bands and gilt titles, beige marble paper covered boards. It also has new, plain green end papers. The contents of the books are original and complete, abundantly illustrated with full page full colour plates. Some light foxing to the original end papers, title pages and frontispieces, thereafter text pages and illustrations smooth clean and bright. A faded ink previous owner name written at the top of the title page to each volume. A beautifully preserved set.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1865. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Set of 7 volumes. Green cloth, gilt, sunned edges and spines, lightly bumped corners, head and heel. Vol. 6 top of spine holding but loosely. All edges gilt. (c1865). Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Interior shows occasional minor wear. 4 pages of advertisements at the books' rear. Contains over 300 colour plates of plants, all present with protective tissues. Pratt was an expert in botany in the Victorian era, when flowering plants and ferns were used for decoration as well as being used by pharmacies.

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" [ca. 300-350] pages per volume + plates. Together with: Pratt, Anne. The Ferns of Great Britain, and Their Allies ... (Second Edition) London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [1871]; and: Pratt, Anne. The British Grasses and Sedges. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [1859]. Notable for the wealth of plant lore (chiefly European), with numberless scriptural and poetical references throughout, as well as the color plates (from the author's illustrations). BMC, volume 20, page 856, columns 538-39; Sitwell, Great Flower Books, page 127 (gives dates of 1850-1857 for the first 5 volumes; '... many times reprinted ... A very popular Victorian work'). 7 volumes complete; uniformly bound in purple pebbled cloth, spines stamped gilt and blind, covers ruled and decorated in blind, light yellow endpapers, t.e.g. Sunning and wear to spines and extremities (chiefly to… Read More