The ferns of Great Britain: / illustrated by John E. Sowerby, proprietor of Sowerby's English Botany. The descriptions, synonyms, &c by Charles Johnson, Esq., Botanical Lecturer at Guy's Hospital.
Charles Pierpoint Johnson (d.1893)
Category
Books
Date
1854
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222003
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 87, [1], p., [49] leaves of plates; [2] 52, p., [27] leaves of plates: col. ill. ; 8vo (23 cm). Provenance: lithographed book-label 'Charles Hartree' to front pastedown, and his inscription, dated 1866, to verso of front flyleaf; later ownership inscription: 'A Mayall / 1906'. Binding: nineteenth maroon blind-and-gold fern patterned cloth, central gilt lozenge with green lacquered fern motif, gilt edges; spine torn, with piece missing at head.
Makers and roles
Charles Pierpoint Johnson (d.1893) John Edward Sowerby (London 1825-London 1870)