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Synopsis

A guide to british wild-flowers. by edward step, f.l.s. (first series) with clear descriptions of 394 species. revised by a. keith jackson of the herbarium, royal botanic gardens, kew. with colour figures of 127 species and 150 text illustrations including a pictorial colour key to the plates. new edition reprinted. second series with clear descriptions of 350 species. revised by a. b. jackson, a.l.s. department of botany, british museum (natural history). with coloured figures of 130 species and 160 text illustrations including a pictorial colour key to the plates. new edition. (third series) with clear descriptions of 154 species including all the british orchids. revised by a. b. jackson, f.l.s. with coloured figures of 64 species 87 photographic reproductions and 119 text illustrations including a pictorial colour key to the plates. new edition reprinted. (the wayside and woodland series).

Item Description

THREE VOLUMES. 8vo. 7 x 5 inches. First Series, xxxii + 176 pp.; Second Series, xxxvi + 188 pp.; Third Series, xxxii + 191 + [1] pp. Bound in maroon cloth, front board with blind stamped border enclosing gilt blocks of plants, in pictorial (with copies of frontispiece fixed) dust wrappers, which have some sunning and darkening and chips at head and tail of spine. Colour speckled edges. All volumes very good with clean interiors. Illustrated by 310 colour plates, including 3 frontispieces, by 87 black and white photographic plates, and by figures in colour key and in text. Pictorial endpapers. Decorated by publisher's devices on title pages. Blossoms was the first published title in the well known Wayside and Woodland series of Frederick Warne. The First and Second Series appeared in 1895 and 96, with the Third Series following in 1929. This set is of the new edition of 1941, with two of the three volumes, being reprints of it. Edward Step (1855-1931) was a natural history writer, who contributed several other titles to the Wayside and Woodland series.