THE GRASSES OF GREAT BRITAIN de Johnson, C - 1861

London: Sowerby, 1861. Book. Illus. by John E. Sowerby. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. 144 hand-coloured plates, 192 text pages. Half leather binding with marbled paper covered boards, gilt tooling to spine, some general wearand loss to top and bottom of the spine [please see images] hinges cracked but attached. Contents clean and tight, matching marbled endpapers and fore-edges, plates free from foxing with the exception of plate 144, no annotation. Thiis copy bears the book plate of Sir George Taylor to the front pastedown. [Sir George Taylor , former director of Kew, keeper of Botany, British Museum, plant collector and botanist]. A very good copy..