Badmin, S. R. (Painted by) Geoffrey Grigson (Text By):
The Shell Guide To Trees And Shrubs.
London, Phoenix House, 1958 Overized hard cover, pictorial card bds, yellow cloth to spine, corners rubbed, small ink blot to btm upper bd on yellow cloth, rear leading edge has 1" rub, otherwise Good, contents clean and tight with lovely colour paintings, unpaginated, no names, inscriptions etc... "This charming quarto consists of twelve openings, one for each month of the year. At each 'spread' there is a full colour picture by a famous artist. Set alongside and opposite the picture is an outline diagram and a descriptive text by a distinguished writer and naturalist. There is added an account of the trees mentioned with their common, and some local, names."
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Keywords: Shell guide quarto natural history months of the year paintings S R Badmin guide nature fields woods trees shrubs wayfarer