John Lindley; Thomas Moore — The Treasury of Botany

London; New York; Bombay, Longmans, Green and Co. 1899. Cloth. A smart complete pair of illustrated botanical works, in original binding. Bound in original black cloth, with gilt lettering to the front board and spine. The pair features a monochrome frontispiece to volume one, with the original tissue guard. The set features a total of nineteen monochrome plates throughout in addition to monochrome vignettes. Collated, complete. By English botanist, gardener and orchidologist John Lindley, who was Assistant Secretary to the Horticultural Society, and British gardener and botanist Thomas Moore: an expert on British ferns and fern allies, who was curator of the Society of Apothecaries Garden between 1848-1887.  Bound in original black cloth. Externally, very smart. Mild bumping and rubbing to extremities. Single mark to vol2 endpapers. Internally, generally firmly bound. Vol1 pp.7-10, vol2 pp.1235-1238 loose. Mild, infrequent strain to vol2. Pages generally bright and clean, with the odd spot, and occasional moderate tide marks to plate extremities in vol1, and corresponding mild age toning and slight cockling to surrounding pages. Slight scattered spotting to text block edges. Ink inscriptions to title pages. Ink inscription to vol2 front blank. Very Good . Ill.: Fitch and Branston; Adlard. Very Good .