Favourite Field Flowers: Wild Flowers of England de Tyas, Robert

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Houlston & Stoneman, London. 1848. First edition.. Hardback.. 12 hand-coloured plates (including frontis, which is misbound at page 177). Bound in red leather with gilt decoration. Very Good (covers lightly worn).

London: Houlston & Stoneman, 1848. 'Favourite field flowers, or, Wild flowers of England popularly described : the localities in which they grow, their times of flowering, &c, and illustrative poetry, original and selected'. xi, [i],196pp.12 hand-coloured flower plates each with a tissue guard. Pub. green cloth with gilt titles enclosed within a gilt floral flame and blind-stamped border. Matching gilt decoration and titles to the spine. A.e.g. Neat gift inscripton dated 1849 from a girl to her brother. Complete copy. Some gatherings a trifle loose but a lovely copy.. 1st edition. Hardback. V.g.. small 8vo.

London : Houlston & Stoneman, 1848-1850. First edition. Cloth. Good. 6.5" by 4". James Andrews. Two charming volumes on the wild flowers of England, with beautifully hand coloured plates. Two volumes in their first edition, with the first volume being published in 1848 and the second first published in 1850. Favourite Field Flowers; or Wild Flowers of England popularly describes the localities in which these flowers grow and their times of flowering. The aim of these volumes was to supply entertaining and instructive accounts of such plants indigenous to Britain. Plates are hand coloured and drawn and designed by James Andrews. All twelve colour plates from volume one are present, but plate 49 is loose. All twelve plates in volume two are present. Collated, complete.  Both volumes are in the publisher's original cloth. Externally, the volumes are a little worn to the spine. Volume one's spine is faded and bumped to the head and tail. Volume two is also a little bumped to the head and tail of… Leer más