Haunts of the Wild Flowers

Anne Pratt

Verlag: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, London, 1863

Beschreibung

A good copy of this scarce work by Anne Pratt. In the original decorative cloth with 8 chromolithographed colour plates. The green cloth binding has gilt decoration with integrated title and blind stamped decoration to the front board and gilt titles with an intricate flower and leaf design to the spine. The back board has blind stamped decoration. The binding is quite bright and clean with some rubbing and slight fraying to the corners. The spine ends are pulled and there is a small mark on the back board. The original pale yellow endpapers are present with some old repair at the joints. Both sets are slightly grubby and the front free endpaper has an old smudged signature at the top. The contents are complete: frontispiece; title; contents 1p; text pp 1 - 314 with 7 colour plates; list of flowers pp 315-320. The frontispiece is tissue-guarded (the guard is browned) but the remainder of the plates are without guards. All the plates are bright and clean. The text pages tend to have darker brown foxing, particularly around the margins. There is the occasional pencil mark and a repaired top edge tear at p 205/6. The stitching is sound but slightly wobbly. Anne Pratt (1806-1893) was the author of numerous works on natural history. She was a talented artist and a keen botanist and researcher on natural history topics. She was unusual in using her real name and in her skill as a writer - framing her books to meet the needs of the reader. This work focuses on habitats and the concept that flower species can be characteristic of a particular environment such as a riverbank or cultivated field. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 033499

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Haunts of the Wild Flowers
• Verlag: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1863
• Sprache: Englisch
• Einband: Decorative Cloth
• Illustrator: Anne Pratt
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • Botany
  • Flowers