The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworths and Horsetails stix Illustrated throughout

Illustrated throughout

and Valentinian in the tragedy of 'Valentinian'

Original turquoise cloth boards with the excellent and unclipped dust-wrapper

Illustrated with line photo-engravings

all first editions

The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworths and Horsetails stix Illustrated throughoutLondon: Frederick Warne, 1899. New edition, in four volumes, wholly revised by Edward Step. Royal 8vo (10 x 6. 5 ins); pp. xiv, (1), 269; xii, 279; xi, 258; xi, 213. 319 coloured plates and 5 uncoloured plates in total, including the frontispieces (with tissue guards). Original decorative Art Nouveau cloth, gilt title lettering to front and spines, top edges gilt. Ex. libris Violet Ormonde Matthews with ink inscription dated 1899 to front of vol I.