Robertson, H R — Plants We Play With

Wells Gardner, Darton & Co Ltd 1915 1st edition. Cloth, VG. [viii]+114pp, colour frontis, 19 colour & 20 b/w plates, text illustrations, title blind stamped 'Presentation Copy' & with a gift inscription on the endpaper from 'Uncle Harry' ( presumably the author ) to his neice Gladys, cloth a little rubbed at the edges, paper cartouche on the upper board in good condition, endpapers tanned, otherwise a near fine copy. Twenty plants are described, along with the games & folklore associated with them, from Pimpernel ( to predict the weather ) to Ash ( an ash leaf with an even number of leaflets is a good luck charm ).