Author: Rhind, W.
Title: A History of the Vegetable Kingdom; Embracing Comprehensive Descriptions of the Plants most Interesting to Man and the Lower Animals; their application in the arts, manufactures, medicine, and domestic ecomony
Description: Blackie & Son 1868 xvi, 744, engraved portrait frontis (of Linnaeus), additional hand-col engraved title-page, 45 steel engraved plates (22 hand-col), numerous wood text engravings. . HB. Roy. 8vo, rebound in recent half morocco, raised bands and gt tooling to spine compartments, marbled boards and edges, new endpapers. Old stain to margins of portrait frontis; scattered light foxing. Recent owner's printed book-plate (Michael Bryant). Fine binding. Vg.. Revised edition, with supplement. Colour plates by W. Fitch. Nissen BBI, 1628..

Keywords: Botany; Fine Binding; Hand coloured plates


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