Author: Pratt, A.; Step, E.
Title: The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges & Ferns of Great Britain. Vol. I-IV
Description: Frederick Warne & Co. 1899-1900 xiv, 269; xii, 279; xi, 258; xi, 215, 4 plain + 319 col plates. . HB. 4 vols, roy. 8vo, half roan, some rubbing/wear to leather; joints split in several places. Minor foxing to endpapers. Internally clean with bright coloured plates. Good. Provenance: Frances Partridge's copy, with her name to endpaper of first volume. Frances Catherine Partridge [née Marshall] (1900–2004), diarist, author, pacifist, member of the Bloomsbury set.. New Edition, revised by Edward Step. Attractive chromolithographic plates. Anne Pratt (1806-1893) was a botanical illustrator and author of a number of popular Victorian natural history books. This, her magnum opus, was first published in 6 volumes, 1850-1857..

Keywords: 11675; ABABOOKFAIR; ABABOOKFAIR 2019; B6688; Botany; Britain; Colour plates; Ferns; Grasses; PBFA; Sedges; Wild Flowers


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