Publishers original green cloth, embossed in gilt and blind stamped; all edges gilt. Recently rebacked using original covers with spine strip pasted over a barely visible well-matching green cloth; new cream endpapers. Very slight wear to bottom corners. 1863 re-issue of the first edition 'to which is now added a supplement containing 180 figures of lately discovered flowering plants by John W. Salter and the ferns, horsetails, and club-mosses by John E. Sowerby'. xlix and 186pp. Illustrated with 89 pages of beautifully hand-coloured plates, showing various flowers. Text and plates clean and Bright. Some neat pencil annotations to reverse of plates. Ex-libris Roderick C. Stern. Overall Very Good-. Photos on request. Seller Inventory # 1021079012762

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Title: British Wild Flowers

Publisher: John Van Voorst, London, UK

Publication Date: 1863

Binding: Hard Back

Illustrator: Sowerby, J. E.

Condition: Very Good-

Edition: Re-Issue, revised

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