The Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1870 A good copy in the original decorative cloth binding with 76 coloured plates. This work was sold as an individual volume and also as Vol 6 of Pratt's work on Flowering Plants. It is undated but was published in 1870. The binding is bright with gilt and blind stamped decoration to front board; gilt titles to spine and blind stamped decoration to the back board. The corners have light wear and some cloth loss. There is some fraying to the cloth at the front spine joint with pulling and some fraying at the spine ends. The spine is slightly duller than the boards. There are a couple of lighter areas on the back board. All page edges gilted. The original yellow endpapers are present. There is a horizontal crease at the front endpapers. Contents: half title; title; half title to Grasses and Sedges; plant lists; text pp 1-62 with 35 plates; half title to Ferns; text pp 65-140 with 41 plates; 4 page publisher's catalogue at the rear. There is some light spotting to the initial half title and occasional spotting to text. There is an intermittent stain at the top page edge which appears at p 5 and then occasionally across text pages, and which affects the top edge of around 14 plates. The plates in the first section do not have tissue guards; the majority of the fern plates do. There is light toning to edges of the grass and sedge plates. Fern plates are very clean. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.