The romance of plant life : interesting descriptions of the strange and curious in the plant world / by G.F. Scott Elliot … ; with thirty-four illustrations.
George Francis Scott Elliot (1862 - 1934)
Category
Books
Date
1907
Materials
Place of origin
Philadelphia
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257476
Summary
Bibliographic description
379, [1] p., [1], XXXIV leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil price and codes on front pastedown: "150 / net / 4X= / 10/6". Provenance: Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Brentano's / Booksellers & stationers, / New York.' Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's dark blue cloth; single white fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt and red stamped centrepiece on upper board (within a single white fillet border): 'Australian bottle trees'; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt stamped treehouse, gilt lettering and red and white stamped bird on lily pad on spine.
Makers and roles
George Francis Scott Elliot (1862 - 1934), author