[HIBBERD, SHIRLEY]. The Seaweed Collector: A Handy Guide to the Marine Botanist, Suggesting What to Look for, and Where to go, in the Study of the British Algae, and the British Sponges. London: Groombridge & Sons, n.d. [ca. 1872].
First edition. Cloth-bound, hardcover, octavo (18.5cm x 12.5cm x 2cm), pp. vii, 152, [14] ads. English text, with eight coloured plates and numerous woodcuts in the text. Bound in publisher's original decorative cloth covers. All page edges gilt. Brown coated endpapers. Rear indexes. Printed by R. Barrett and Sons. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Slight bumping to spine ends, otherwise the covers well-preserved. Interior fresh and clean. Previous owner bookplate to front pastedown. A handsome copy of this scarce title.
Notes: Text on Collecting and Preserving Seaweeds, Uses of Seaweed, Classification, the Various Colour Groups, Cultivation and British Sponges; with eight beautiful full-colour chromolithograph plates (including frontispiece) showing various seaweed groupings; black and white engraved vignette illustrations of seaweed specimens, collecting tool and seaside scenes. Hibberd British (1825- 1890) was a prolific writer during the Victorian era on Natural History and Gardening subjects.
