Second Hand
Hardback
Author: Deakin, R.
Published by: Stidolph & Bellamy; Groombridge & Sons
1st edition. Book Condition: Good-.
Original red cloth covers with gilt spine titles and gilt and black decorative cover; wear to edges, corners and fore edge bumped, sun fading to spine and cover panels, evidence of very minor water damage to covers. Front hinge cracked. Foxing to page edges and end papers, otherwise crisp and clean inside. Hand coloured frontispiece and illustrated throughout with black and white woodcuts. Ex-libris sticker to front pastedown of notable botanist and author Mary Briggs.