Lowe, E.J. and Alexander Francis Lydon, et al. — Ferns: British and Exotic (Volume I Only)

London, Groombridge and Sons, 1864. Hardcover. Dark purple boards with gilt lettering and illustration; 160 pp.; richly illustrated with 50 color plates. This is volume one only, of an eight-volume set; this volume in particular concerns "Gymnogramma, Nothochlaena, Niphobolus, Polypodium." Filled to the brim with gorgeous color plates. Fair (Boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; 1.5" piece of spine strip is missing from the bottom; the top is frayed; covers have tape remanants; textblock edges are tone/scuffed/smudged/foxed; textblock is cracked; first few pages are loosening from the textblock and have dampstaining at the bottom; textblock is cracked; interior is toned with some foxing; inner hinges are cracked, but have been reinforced with tape on the inside; marginalia on ffep.) .