British Wild Flowers in their Natural Haunts (6 volume set)

Second Hand
Hardback
Published by: Gresham Publishing Company Ltd
1st edition. Book Condition: Very good.

Green quarter leather with black(?) silky patterned cloth boards; gilt spine titles. Spines moderately faded, uniformly, to a browny-green. Some age toning and spotting to the edges of the textblock. Internally very crisp and clean, complete with informative tissue guard overlays with colour plates. Library stamp to front pastedown: S. Swithun’s School, Winchester. Includes 64 plates in colour, representing 350 different plants from drawings by J N Fitch, and many illustrations from photographs. Includes numerous colour fold-out maps. Introduction; v. 2. Fields and meadows, cornfields, sea-coast; v. 3. Woods, roadsides, hedges; v. 4. Mountains, dry places, lakes and wet places, waste places; v. 5. Bogs, marshes, heaths, moors, rocks etc., Angiospermae, genera, glossary, bibliography; v. 6. British flora supplementary addenda, index. Overall Very Good. Photos available on request.