British Rust Fungi

Second Hand
Hardcover
Author: Wilson & Henderson??
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

Book Condition: Fair.
Assumed 1966 1st edition. The contents remain crisp and clean however it lacks its title page, the boards are significantly marked and the spine is significantly damaged resulting in the rear board being half detached and the front board starting. The textblock remains secure in itself. Thum marks to fore-edge of thee textblock. A little age toning. W. B. Grove’s British Rust Funghi, first published by Cambridge University Press in 1913, had long been the standard work on the subject. But it had grown increasingly obsolete in the light of the intensive research devoted to the group. As early as 1938, Dr Wilson, who was reader in Mycology at Edinburg University, was encouraged to prepare a new edition. Since then it became clear that what was needed was not a revision but an entirely new book. This was three-quarters complete in 1960, when Dr Wilson’s illness and death again brought it to a halt. His colleague Dr Douglas Henderson then undertook full responsibility, completing the text and redrawing all the figures. Eventually published in 1966, it covers all the species of Uredinales or Rust Fungi known in Britain at the time of publication and takes into account extensive research.