Author: JOHNS Rev. Charles Alexander
Title: Flowers of the Field. Revised throughout and edited by Clarence Elliott. With an Appendix including the Pipe-Wort Tribe (Eriocauleae), the Sedge Tribe (Cyperaceae) and the Grass Tribe (Gramineae). [Twelfth Impression thus.] UNUSUALLY CRISP, NEAR FINE COPY
Description: Routledge,, n.d. [c.1925]. 8vo., Twelfth Impression thus, with coloured frontispiece, (original tissue guard present), 95 fine coloured plates and very numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; originl green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and letterd in gilt, a near fine copy. Includes glossary, and English and Latin indexes. Johns' classic handbook was first published in two volumes in 1853 and several times reissued as a single volume. In 1892 an Appendix entitled 'Grasses' was compiled by the author's son from Bentham & Hooker. The work was revised substantially by Boulger for the twenty-ninth edition of 1899, with Grace Layton's fine coloured plates appearing for the first time in the thirty-second edition of 1910. Elliott's major revision was first published in 1907; he founded the Six Hills Nursery, renowned for its alpines and allied rock plants. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Freeman 1974.

Keywords: natural history, plants, botany, flowers, wild flowers, horticulture, johns, clarence elliott, gwatkin


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