xii, 280pp with tissue-guarded colour plate frontispiece and fifty further stunning colour plate botanical illustrations of garden and wild flowers, further sketches and drawings in text. Title page bordered and printed in red and black. In decorated cloth boards with gilt embellishments and gilt titles on spine, top edge gilt (cloth damp stained and worn, lightly rubbed at edges and around spine joints). Endpapers a little spotted, front paste down a little bubbled, else internally remarkably bright and fresh, clean, neat and tight. 4to. A stunning celebration of the natural wonders of wild flowers, with charming coloured plates. .
