A history of the vegetable kingdom; . embracing the physiology of plants, with their uses to man and the lower animals, and their application in the arts, manufactures, and domestic economy. By William Rhind ...
William Rhind
Category
Books
Date
1855
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3113079
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 720p., XL [i.e. 41] plates, some col. . ill.., port. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Coloured plates bound before steel engraved plates, contrary to numbering. Publishers' advertisements (8p.) bound at end.. Provenance: Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Binding: Nineteenth-century publishers' blind- and gilt-stamped cloth binding over boards; pictorial gilt spine with title "Rhind's Vegetable kingdom"; as issued.
Makers and roles
William Rhind