The Ferns of Great Britain: Illustrated. The Descriptions, Synonyms, &c.

by Charles Johnson by John E. Sowerby, Charles Johnson

$125 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: John E. Sowerby, 1855. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's brown cloth with pictorial gilt cover device; gilt spine titles; {1}-87, 1 pp; hand-colored frontispiece and 49 separately-numbered leaves of plates uncolored . Straight and tight, with sunning to front cover and spine; internally quite fresh, with just occasional faint foxing to the plates. Gift inscription to front pastedown,

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