Flowers Of The Field.
£40.00
Publisher
The Sheldon Press.
Place
London
Date
1925
Synopsis
Thirty-fifth edition entirely revised by g. s. boulger. with portrait, memoir of the author and 64 coloured plates.
Item Description
Thick 8vo. 8 x 5.5 inches. l + 611 + [1] pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt with light blue titles and block on front board. Spine and boards partly sunned and browning of flyleaves; otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated by portrait, by 64 colour plates, including frontispiece and by numerous engraved text figures. A standard botanical reference book (first SPCK edition published 1851) by Charles Alexander Johns (1811-74), botanist and educator, who was ordained 1842. This edition revised by George Simonds Boulger (1853-1922), who was Professor of Natural History at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester and Lecturer in Botany at the City of London College, and later at the Imperial Institute. Includes a memoir of Johns by Boulger.
[Stock No. 28807]
