[SPECIMEN ALBUM - BRITISH MOSSES]. [PERRY, A. R. (1938-2014), his copy]. BENSON, R. Species Book Illustrative of the Principal Genera of British Mosses. Shrewsbury, 1897.

4to. Approximately 129 samples on 50 leaves with manuscript captions; manuscript title on two laid-in ruled leaves. Near contemporary full blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt (“British Mosses”). (Binding worn, soiled, hinges cracked, occasional thumbsoiling in text). Provenance: A. R. (“Roy”) Perry with his ink ownership stamp on the front free endpaper. Perry was a dedicated and knowledgeable naturalist and botanist and was the “Recorder of Mosses” in 1966 for the British Bryological Society; his ownership of this book may have been from roughly that time.