Flowers in Britain. Wild, Ornamental and Economic and Some Relatives In Other Lands.

London England: Macmillan & Co, 1947. Hardback. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Previous owners school award sticker to inside cover. Browning to edge of spine and edge. Green cloth with gilt lettering. This book has been written for anyone who is interested in or wants to know something about flowering plants. It is not intended soley for the professional botanist, and therefore no previous knowledge of botany is assumed. The coloured plates have been prepared by artists who have specialised in this field. Apart from the frontispiece, about 160 wild flowers are depicted in colour. Most of the 130 photographs are of cultivated plants, chiefly ornamental andeconomic. Contents: Part I - Introductory: Structure of Flowering Plants. Part II - Dicotyledons: I. Flowers With free Petals. Part III - Dicotyledons: II. Flowers With United Petals. Part IV - Monomcotyledons. Coloured Plates. Illustrated. 393 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Reprint. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.