Filices Britannicæ; An History of British Proper Ferns. With Plain and Accurate Descriptions, and New Figures of all the Species and Varieties...

Book Description

First edition, [part I], 4to (290 x 230 mm), xvi, 59, [5]pp., with errata slip pasted onto verso of final leaf, 31 hand-coloured plates drawn and engraved by Bolton, cont. calf, rubbed, neatly rebacked, spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt with blind tolling, red morocco title label.

Dealer Notes

Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Walter Selby; bookplate of E. J. Winslow; ownership signature of F. J. Floyd, 1905.
James Bolton (bap. 1735, d. 1799), one of the foremost eighteenth-century mycologists. He was a self-taught naturalist of humble origins and he drew and etched all the illustrations in this work. A second part was published at Halifax five years later.
Henrey, 464; Nissen, 194.

Author BOLTON (James)

Date [1785.]

Price: £775.00

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