I have here for sale a book entitled WILD FLOWERS by Anne Pratt.  This is the first edition of this famous book, published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London in 1853.  It has a total of 192 colour illustrations of wild flowers arranged 2 per page over 96 pages, with detailed description given below each flower. Scarce in this format.

Though virtually unknown today Anne Pratt was one of the most popular botanical illustrators of the Victorian era. Publishing around 20 books in her lifetime, she became a household name with Wild Flowers of the Year (1852), and Queen Victoria herself personally requested copies of all of Pratt’s works.  She is probably best known for The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworts, and Horsetails, Pratt’s six-volume project assessing more than 1500 species, published over a decade between 1855-66.

Green cloth hardboards with faded gilt lettering to the spine.  The boards are in only fair condition with cracks and splits to the cloth on the spine and hinges.  Some fading and staining to the cloth.  Internally the hinges are split also, so boards feel a little loose.  A few minor repairs have been made to a few pages.  All others clean and in good condition.  96 pages, 35 x 28 cm.

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