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The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges & Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies, the Club Mosses, Horsetails, &c. 4 Vols by Anne Pratt, Edward Step - 1905
by Anne Pratt, Edward Step
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The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges & Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies, the Club Mosses, Horsetails, &c. 4 Vols
by Anne Pratt, Edward Step
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London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1905 A very good copy of the 4 volume set, in the original art nouveau style decorative cloth bindings with 318 colour plates and 5 plain plates. Top page edges gilt. This is a later edition of Anne Pratt's work, extensively revised by Edward Step and with colour plates reworked to ensure that the colour matched the plants.The bindings are bright and clean with light pulling and slight fading to spines. A couple of the spines have slight cocking to the front. Very occasional light marks and light corner wear. Each volume has half title, frontispiece with tissue-guard, title page, contents, text and plates. Vol I: 269pp, 77 colour and 4 plain plates; Vol II: 279 pp, 76 plates; Vol III: 258 pp, 78 plates; Vol IV: 178 pp plus index pp 181-215, 87 colour plates, 1 plain plate. Contents are very clean and in very good condition. There is light spotting to preliminaries and end leaves and occasional light spotting elsewhere most usually in the gutter or margin. Vol I has a small repaired page margin tear at page 224; Vol II has a small page tear in the bottom margin at p 208.
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- Illustrator Anne Pratt
- Format/Binding Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
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- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Frederick Warne & Co
- Place of Publication London and New York
- Date Published 1905
- Size 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
- Keywords anne pratt; edward step; flowering plants; victorian botany;
- Size 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
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Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, And Ferns Of Great Britain V2: And Their Allies The Club Mosses, Horsetails, Etc. (1899)
by Pratt, Anne; Step, Edward [Editor]
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- 9781167017896 / 1167017897
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The Flowering Plants Grasses, Sedges & Ferns of Great Britain and their Allies the Club Mosses, Horsetails, &c
by Pratt, Anne; Edward Step
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- New edition, revised by Edward Step, F.L.S.
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London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1905. New edition, revised by Edward Step, F.L.S.. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. Illustrated with 315 colored plates figuring upwards of 1500 species. Pratt [1806 - 1893] was one of the best known English botanical and ornithological illustrators and authors of the Victorian age. 4 volumes published in different years, small 4to, v1 269pp (1899) , v2 279pp (1905), v3 258pp (1905), v4 215pp (1900), blue decorated cloth binding, embossed design on front cover, with gilt titles on spine and front. Color plates throughout. OCLC 499929334 lists the 1st volume 1899 and vols. 2-4 of the 1905 edition. Covers dusty, rubbed at edges and spine tips. Some foxing on first and last pages, not affecting plates or text. In vol. 4 plate 305 listed twice. A very pleasant readable copy.
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FLOWERING PLANTS GRASSES, SEDGES & FERNS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THEIR ALLIES THE CLUB MOSSES, HORSETAILS, &C; 4 VOLUMES; NEW EDITION
by Pratt, Anne; Step, Edward
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London: Frederick Warne, 1905. New Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. About 250pp each with indexes in volume 4. Fine full-page color litho plates #'d to 318. Frontispieces tissue-covered. Revised edition by Step. Floral embossed cloth with gilt lettering. Gilt tops. Foxing on a few early pages. Spine of volume 1 rubbed others very good condition.
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The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges & Ferns of Great Britain and their allies the Club Mosses, Horsetails, in four volumes, complete
by Pratt, Anne (revised by Edward Step)
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London, Frederick Warne, 1899. New edition (revised).. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. xiv, (1), 1-269; xii, 1-279; xi, 1-258; xi, 1-213 with 319 fine colored plates after paintings by Anne Pratt. Original one-half black morocco leather over dark green leather-covered boards, spine with five raised bands each decorated with small gilt horizontal lines and sent off by double gilt panel lines, red morocco title label in one compartment lettered in gilt, volume numbered stamped in gilt in one other compartment and with gilt floral design vignette in the remaining four other compartments, all page edges are spectacled in red, lg 8vo. According to Edward Step, who revised the volume: "All the coloured plates have been specially compared for this edition with the carefully hand-coloured originals; and the colour printing has been thereby improved." Indeed, the colored plates are bright with crisp edges to the flowers and leaves and with vivid coloration. This copy is…
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