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 II, - The history of plants.
Date
1904.
Collection
Creator(s)
Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Marian Busk, Talwin Morris, F. W Oliver, David Rodger, Gresham Publishing
Code
111331
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Dark grey-brown endpapers.
Dark indigo cloth boards. Design (on front cover and spine only): in gilt, six erect stems tipped with seven leaves blocked in leaf green rising from and through an outlined ellipse enclosing a circle; various overlapping rectangular forms, the largest with a broad gilt base and blocked in leaf green, enclosing another containing six butterflies; title above in architectural sans-serif capitals flanked by small gilt motifs of rectangles intersecting a circle. Matching spine, with an outlined circle enclosing an ellipse. For a closely related design, see Burth, Short cuts and by-ways in arithmetic. Unsigned (LO/C32). From the collection of David Rodger LO/C32. xi, 983 pages, 8 pages, plate (portrait) : illustrations, woodcuts ; 26cm
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