Author: Mrs. Henry Perrin; Professor Boulger, F.L.S.
Title: British Flowering Plants
Description: London, Bernard Quaritch, 1914. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful sweeping set of British flowering plants beautifully depicted in colour by Mrs. Henry Perrin, the first limited edition. A complete collection in four large volumes, in the original cream cloth binding. A limited edition of one-thousand copies printed, the present set number six hundred and fifty. A colossal and beautiful botanical work which lists British flowering plants , with detailed descriptions and an introduction by English botanist Professor Boulger. The catalogue is divided into divisions, classes, and families e.g. 'Gymnospermia' division class Coniferae; family: Araycariaceae, Taxaceae. Each plant is beautifully depicted. The volumes contain three hundred impressive coloured plates reproduced from drawings by Ida Perrin, known for her botanical reproductions. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine, light soiling to the boards, as common. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting to the fore edge and endpapers, otherwise the pages are generally very bright and clean throughout. Illustrated with three hundred full page colour plates. Collated, complete. Near Fine . Ill.: Mrs. Henry Perrin. Near Fine .

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