Author: RHIND,WILLIAM
Title: A History of the Vegetable Kingdom Embracing the Physiology of Plants with Their Uses to Man and the Lower Animals and Their Application in the Arts,Manufactures and Domestic Economy
Description: Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1857. Hardcover. 8vo. Full Rich Leather Binding in Burgundy Coloured Calf with five raised bands to spine and with gilt titles to the 2nd compartment to spine.Graded Good,gilt lined borders and with marbled endpapers and all page edges are in marbled effect.This copy lacking itr;s half title and with engraved frontispiece and engraved title page.Illustrated by sveral hundred engravings on wood and steel.This is a re-issue of the 1855 Edition with 29 new plates introduced.Work includes 58 Chapters in all.There are some 22 series of figures coloured after nature important for their use in medicine and manufactures such as Gum Plants,Medicinal plants,plants used as food,plants used in dying and poisoned vegetables to name a few.There are no former names present,some cracking along the front and rear hinge joins and with a little spotting and foxing to the early pre-lims.Some wear to the corners and outer edges of the binding is noted also.Large and Comprehensive work,8vo (xii) 720pp [1857]. Good .

Keywords: Plants Vegetables Colour Plates


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