Description

Large format hardcover, folio size volume bound in dark gray cloth, lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 189 pages. Includes an appendix an introduction to the new edition, a bibliography and an index. Bibliography edited and introduced by Patrick M. Synge; Foreword by S. Dillon Ripley. Illustrated with 51 full page color plates. New Edition , (of the title originally published in Great Britain in 1956), stated first printing thus. A beautifully illustrated book which includes a listing of more than 750 of the most desirable illustrated botanical books ever printed. No previous ownership marks. Small abrasion to front free end-paper, possibly the result of price-sticker removal, more tactile than visible. Else an as new copy in like dust-jacket. Near fine in a fine dust-jacket. A large, heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, charged at actual cost.