Flowers of the Field

Johns, C. A.; Clarence Elliott (ed.). Flowers of the Field. London: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1909. Third printing. 8vo. (xx) 324pp. Indices in English and Latin. Housed in custom made slipcase, textured brown buckram over marbled paper boards, paper label on spine, with gilt lettering. Original pictorial green cloth, stamped in gilt. Beveled edges. An impressive and comprehensive work on British botany, illustrated with 92 color plates in offset, 245 in-text woodcuts. Frontispiece with a tissue guard. Slipcase with minor rubbing along the top. Light rubbing at extremities and tiny, barely noticeable stain on front cover and the spine. Light foxing to interior covers, endpapers and edges of book block. Minor sporadic stains on a few pages. Period signature of the previous owner on the verso of the frontispiece, dated August 1910. Slipcase in very good+, binding in very good-, interior in very good condition overall. vg- to vg+. Hardcover. (49370) $95