The Book of the Tulip by Hall, A. Daniel - 1928

Martin Hopkinson Ltd., London, . . Hardcover. Good Some Darkening At Spine, Foxing Spotting At Text Block Edges, Fep. Octavo, Gilt Lettered Green Cloth. 1929 B & W Photo Plates, Text Figures Octavo, Gilt Lettered Green Cloth, , PP.224, D11a-c

London: Martin Hopkinson, 1929. Illustrated, octavo, pp 224, the fore-edge foxed, scattered foxing throughout, the hinge before the half-title stretched, green cloth slightly marked, the dustwrapper is a little worn, stretched and repaired but largely complete, and now protected in a removable clear cover. [E.A. Bowles' copy, with an inscription "from the author" on the half-title, with a book review pasted in, and also an obituary of Hall pasted on the front endpaper. There are just a few small annotations by Bowles. But a folder a the rear contains a frayed advertising flyer for the book, a tiny pressed specimen of a tulip species preserved in Myddelton House notepaper, four signed letters to Bowles from the author, an offprint of an article by Hall from The Journal of Botany, and a typed list of tulip species from the Dutch nurseryman Jan Roes.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Fair.