Book Description

First edition. Small 8vo, (160 x 100)
Dealer Notes
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914). Microscopist, botanist, mycologist, author, editor of Hardwicke's Science-Gossip and Grevillea, and one of the founders of the Quekett Microscopical Club (still going strong today) named after the microscopist John Thomas Quekett, who died in 1861.
Freeman 786
Author Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt
Date 1869
Binding Original decorative cloth publisher's binding gold stamped microscope within triple gilt border and lettering on spine, a.e.g.
Publisher London: Frederick Warne & Co.
Illustrator M. C. Cooke
Condition Near fine
Pages pp. iv, 123, XII woodengraved pl. (incl. front.)

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