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Hardcover in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 184 pages. Bibliography, Index of Orchids. Translated by Lenore Rosenberg and Anita Weston. Edited by Mark Griffiths. Illustrated throughout with black and white vignettes in text and a suite of 16 full color plates. Second printing. A fascinating and entertaining read about humanity’s obsession with orchids, from prehistoric times to the Victorian-era ‘orchid fever’. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket.