Maw's Genus Crocus with colored plates 1886
Description
Title: A Monograph of the Genus Crocus
Author: Maw, George
Description: viii, 326, xx, [10] pp. With 81 hand-colored lithographed plates; double-page color lithographed map; 2 double-page tables; wood engravings in the text. 12x9¾, later green morocco tooled & lettered in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition. Important and scholarly study of the genus crocus, the saffron of the ancients, both botanical and historical. Includes an appendix on the etymology of the words crocus and saffron by C.C. Lacaita. Plate 17 was not published. Nissen BBI 1316; Great Flower Books p.118.
Place Published: London
Publisher Name: Dulau and Co.
Date Published: 1886
Author: Maw, George
Description: viii, 326, xx, [10] pp. With 81 hand-colored lithographed plates; double-page color lithographed map; 2 double-page tables; wood engravings in the text. 12x9¾, later green morocco tooled & lettered in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition. Important and scholarly study of the genus crocus, the saffron of the ancients, both botanical and historical. Includes an appendix on the etymology of the words crocus and saffron by C.C. Lacaita. Plate 17 was not published. Nissen BBI 1316; Great Flower Books p.118.
Place Published: London
Publisher Name: Dulau and Co.
Date Published: 1886
Condition
Minor scuffing to morocco, spine sunned a bit; near fine.
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Maw's Genus Crocus with colored plates 1886
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