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PRATT, Anne. The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedge

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London: Frederick Warne and Co., [circa 1873]. 6 volumes. 8vo (223 x 150 mm). 319 colored lithographic plates. Publisher's pictorial green cloth with gilt lettering to spines and upper covers, g.e. Condition: occasional light spotting; some rubbing to heads and tails of spines, bumping to corners. "The most widely-used book on English wild flowers for half a century." Great Flower Books (1990) p.127; Nissen BBI 1562 [with:] F.E. HULME. Familiar Wild Flowers. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1902. 7 volumes, small 8vo (187 x 125 mm). Numerous colored plates after Hulme. Original green cloth, blocked in gilt and light green with an art nouveau design. Cf. Nissen BBI 951 (mentioning a 1910 re-issue, but not the present edition). [With:] James HIBBERD. Familiar Garden Flowers. London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Co. Ltd., [n.d but 1879-1887]. 5 volumes, small 8vo (190 x 132 mm). 200 chromolithographed plates after Hulme. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spines, t.e.g. Condition: spines slightly faded and bumped at head and foot. Provenance: Lynn Abbott Trust.. Nissen BBI 952. (18)

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