The flowering plants grasses, sedges & ferns of Great Britain : and their allies the club mosses, horsetails, &c. By Anne Pratt.
Anne Pratt (1806-1893)
Category
Books
Date
1899 - 1900
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221745
Summary
Bibliographic description
New edition revised by Edward Step, ... Illustrated with three hundred and fifteen coloured plates figuring upwards of 1500 species. 4v., col. plates : ill. ; 25cm. Provenance: Inscribed on t.p. "S.F. Yarwood Acomb, Yorks". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) set in a landscape with De Lazlo's portrait of Edith Lady Londonderry in the uniform of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in a medallion above, lettered at the bottom of the plate "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." . Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]) [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century half black morocco on purple cloth, lettered direct in gilt on spine "British flowering plants". Marbled endpapers; gilt-top. Binder's stamp on verso upper flyleaf: "Bound by Potter & Sons, York"
Makers and roles
Anne Pratt (1806-1893) Edward Step (1855 - 1931)