The Vegetable Book : An Unnatural History
384pp. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly sun faded top edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, chipping to top front edge, price unclipped. 8vo. Brings together a great wealth of formerly widely scattered and out-of-the way information about the vegetables of the world including many unusual ones such as ferns and lichens, water plants, thistles, lilies and reeds which could be considered useful in situations of scarcity.
