Handbook of the British flora : a description of the flowering plants and ferns indigenous to, or naturalised in, the British Isles. For the use of beginners and amateurs.
George Bentham (1800-1884)
Category
Books
Date
1878
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3174796
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], lxxx, 592, 16 p. ; 19cm. Priced at £1 in pencil on front pastedown. Pencil annotations throughout the text. Provenance: Not indigenous? Inscribed on front flyleaf in black ink: "Mary Gay 1881". Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full blue cloth, double blind fillet forming a border, blind ornamental centre piece, gilt lettering on spine. Spine damaged, some pages loose with bad historical repairs.
Makers and roles
George Bentham (1800-1884) Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911)