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1874 Our Native Ferns (2 Volumes) Lowe : 79 Coloured Woodcuts : Botany
1874 Our Native Ferns (2 Volumes) Lowe : 79 Coloured Woodcuts : Botany
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Our Native Ferns, Or a History of the British Species and their Varieties
By E. J. Lowe
Published by George Bell and Sons, London, 1874-1880. Printed by B. Fawcett. Complete in two volumes. Hardcover. Bound in the publisher's original green cloth. Blind stamped to boards and spines. Gilt titles to spines and gilt fern motif to front boards. Octavo (26cm x 15cm). Pp. vii, 348; vii, 492. English text. Dark clay endpapers. Vol. 1 with 37 coloured plates and 317 wood engravings. Vol. II with 42 coloured plates and 592 wood engravings. Indexes.
CONDITION
A good complete set. The cloth bindings are in good condition with a few light marks to the boards but with no splitting to the cloth. Inner hinges good. Endpapers good. No names or writing to the books. All contents present to both volumes and pages in good clean condition throughout. ALl colour plates present and in very good condition. Overall a very good set.
(Loc : Natural History, High)
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