I have here for sale a book entitled THE JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY VOL XX BOTANY published by Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, and Williams and Norgate, London, in 1884.  First edition. 

Perhaps the most notable paper published in this volume is by Joseph Hooker, and is based on the work of George Watt entitled 'On Some Undescribed and Imperfectly known Indian species of Primula and Androsace'. There are eighteen plates with this paper! 

The book as whole contains 37 papers by academics in the field.  Dates of publication of the Numbers included in this volume are No 123 December 1882 through to No 131 April 1885, and academics contributing to this volume are Capt William E Armitt, J G Baker, Prof I Bayley Balfour, Alfred Bennett, George Bentham, Harry Bolus, Frederick Orpen Bower, Chas Baron Clarke, Prof P T Cleve, M C Cooke, Re James Crombie, W T Thiselton Dyer, J Starkie Cardner, J R Green, W Botting Hemsley, Sir Joseph Hooker, John Eliot Howard, F Kitton, Miss G Lister, Maxwell Masters, George Murray, Dr William Nylander, Dr Charles Plowright, M C Potter, Henry Ridley, R A Rolfe, J G Otto Tepper, and George Watt.  The book includes 3 two-tone full-page plates, 45 full-page b/w plates, and several in-text b/w illustrations. 

Half bound brown leather on blue and maroon hardboards with some wear to the leather.  Five raised bands with a maroon title block, gilt lettering and gilt decoration on the spine.  There is wear to the leather in some places, with a tear at the top and a small piece missing at the bottom of the spine.  Tan endpapers with the bookplate of the Harris Free Public Reference Library Preston on the front endpaper.  Red speckled page edges.  Front hinge partially cracked but all pages are tight and clean and the book is in very good condition.  vii, 532 pages.  22.5 x 14.5 cm.

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