C. Pierpoint Johnson — British Wild Flowers

London, Gurney & Jackson, 1914. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated botanical reference work, looking at the wild flowers of Britain, complete with ninety hand coloured plates. Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, eighty-nine hand-coloured plates, and two monochrome plates.Collated, complete.This work is intended as a reference guide to the amaeatuer botanist, the field-botanist, the country resident, or the summer rambler. It offers information of a wide variety of wild flowers that can be found in the British countryside, offering a little scientific information to accompany it.Illustrated by John E. Sowerby Sowerby was a botanical illustrator who inherited a taste for botanical drawing from his grandfather, James Sowerby. He also illustrated 'Illustrated Catalogue of British Plants', 'An Illustrated Key to the Natural Orders of British WIld Flowers', 'The Ferns of Great Britain', and more.Written by C. Pierpoint Johnson. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A little light rubbing to the spine and extremities. A few small marks to the cloth. Spine is discoloured. Gift inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean with the occasional scattered spot. Very Good . Ill.: John E. Sowerby; John W. Slater. Very Good .