A. G. Tansley — The British Islands and Their Vegetation

Cambridge, Cambridge at the University Press, 1939. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this large illustrated volume devoted to the contemporary plant life of Britain. A smart first edition. An exploration of Britain's rural landscape and the plant life which populates it. Written by English botanist and ecology pioneer Sir Arthur George Tansley. Tansley helped to found the Central Committee for the Survey and Study of British Vegetation, and served as the first President of the British Ecological Society. He was also a founding editor of the Journal of Ecology, and the first chairman of the British Nature Conservancy. Tansley also performed prominent paleobotany research, specialising in fern evolution. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth, and decorated with a gilt motif to front board. Richly illustrated throughout, this work features a monochrome frontispiece, twenty-two monochrome plates, seventy double-sided monochrome plates, and additional monochrome vignette illustrations throughout. Collated, complete. Bound in original blue cloth. Externally, very smart. Moderate bumping and rubbing to extremities. Moderate fading to spine. Former owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper. Small bookseller sticker to front paste down. Slight age toning and marks to endpapers. Pencil notations to rear free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. The odd minor spot and handling mark to text block edges. Infrequent and very cockling throughout. The odd minor crease to extremities. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .