The natural history of plants : - their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution ; With about two thousand original woodcut illustrations / - From the German of Anton Kerner von Marilaun, by F. W. Oliver; with the assistance of Lady Busk, and Mrs. M. F. Macdonald. - Volume I, - Biology and configuration of plants.
Date
1902.
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Creator(s)
Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Marian Busk, Talwin Morris, F. W Oliver, David Rodger, Blackie & Son
Code
111327
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Dark grey endpapers.
Indian red cloth boards. Design in gilt (on front cover and spine only): nine overlapping outlined circles descending in rows of 4, 3 and 2, within each a blocked circle enclosing in red a pair of drooping teardrops or seeds. Matching spine with title, authors, volume and imprint in architectural sans-serif capitals. Unsigned. Almost certainly by Talwin Morris. For a design with a similar arrangement of circles, see Eliot, Scenes of clerical life, from the Gresham Library of StandardFiction (LO/C32). From the collection of David Rodger LO/C32. Inscription on half-title page: Margaret C. Bulwer, June 14th 1910" LO/C32. xvi, 777 pages, plate (portrait) : woodcuts ; 27cm
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