GOOD to VERY GOOD
CONDITION
This sale is for a vintage hardback FIRST EDITION entitled “Wayside and Woodland Ferns,” subtitled
“A Guide to the British Ferns,
Horsetails and Club-Mosses,” by Edward
Step, F.L.S., with COLOURED figures of every species by Mabel E. Step and 67
vintage photographs by the author.
It was published by Frederick Warne & Co., of London and New York, and
is the 1908 FIRST EDITION.
The contents include:
· The Filmy Ferns
· The Maidenhair
· Bracken
· Parsley Fern
· Hard Fern
· The Spleenworts
· Hart’s-Tongue
· The Woodsias
· The Bladder Ferns
· The Shield Ferns
· The Buckler Ferns
· The Polypodies
· Annual Gymnogram
· Royal Fern
· Adder’s-Tongue
· Moonwort
· Pillwort
· The Horsetails
· The Club Mosses
· The Quillworts
· Classified Index
to Natural Orders, Genera, and Species
· General Index
The book measures 6.5 x 4.75 inches and has 137 pages (+ illustrations), which have rounded corners.
The book is in
good, neat condition for its age, with minor wear/bumps and is a little
grubby/faded to the original decorative embossed hardback cover, with foxing
heavier near the covers and in some places mostly near the rims. There are NO
inscriptions/book-plates and NO other ink or pencil markings in the book. The
binding is good with no loose or missing pages.
There is no dust-jacket.
A wonderfully
illustrated vintage FIRST EDITION.
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postage & packing/shipping for additional items after the cost of the heaviest
book – please wait for a combined invoice.
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& packing
For
or 1st Class = £3.90
European Union Postage: = 6.95 GB Pounds
USA Postage: Air
Mail (USA) = 13.45 GB
Pounds
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