M. C. Cooke - Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms: What to Eat and What to Avoid

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1894. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this colourfully illustrated guide to identifying mushrooms. First edition. Very scarce. Illustrated with eighteen colour plates. Collated complete. A detailed guide to identifying harmful and edible mushrooms, with reference to forty-eight different species including: Milk-Mushrooms, Blue Caps, Fairy Ring Champignon, Hedgehog Mushroom, Giant Puff Ball, and Horn of Plenty, and much more. Written by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, an English botanist, mycologist, journalist, and author who was the curator at the India Museum. With the publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the cloth. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound with the odd page loosening. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. The odd small pencil annotation. Minor age toning to the endpapers with a newspaper article pasted to the front endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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