Allan, Mea - The Hookers Of Kew 1785 - 1911

Michael Joseph, 1967, 1st edition. Cloth, dj, VG+/VG. 273pp, illustrated endpapers, colour frontis, 28pp b/w plates, index, folding geanealogy, near fine copy in a slightly edge worn & price clipped dustjacket. Hardback with dustjacket. ¶ A biography of Sir William Jackson Hooker [ 1785 - 1865 ] and his decendants. Hooker was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, he became the first director of the botanical gardens at Kew.