Margaret Plues — British Grasses

London, Reeve & Co. 1867. First edition. Cloth. First edition of this popular botanical work on British grasses, illustrated with sixteen colour plates. First edition.In publisher's original green cloth binding.Bookplate of the Templetonn family to front free endpaper.With a frontispiece and fifteen further colour plates, alongside various vignettes. Collated, complete.Sixteen pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.Interesting volume on British grasses by prominent botanical writer Margaret Plues. Plues published various  texts, including Rambles in Search of Ferns (1861), Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers (1863) and British Ferns (1866). Her works played a significant role in popularising the scientific genre for the general public. In publisher's original green cloth binding. Bookplate of the Templetonn family to front free endpaper. Externally, very smart with the odd mark, slight rubbing and marginally more prominent bumping. Internally, firmly bound. Bright and clean with the exception of some light spotting, more prevalent to the first and last few pages, and the occasional faint mark throughout the text. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .