THE CYCLOPAEDIA OF BOTANY - COMPLETE BOOK OF HERBS BY RICHARD BROOK CA. 1840

[BROOK, RICHARD]. The Cyclopædia of Botany, or a History and Description of all Plants, British or Foreign, Forming a Complete Book of Herbs and Family Herbal. Huddersfield: R. Brook, n.d. [c. 1840].

FIRST EDITION. Leather-bound, hardcover, thick octavo (19 x 12 x 6.5 cm.), pp. lix, 727 + 99 hand-coloured plates outside the pagination. English text. Handsomely rebound in quarter leather gilt. Contents: Introduction; On Making a Hortus Siccus, or Herbarium; Directions for the Collection and Preservation of Herbs; Glossary of Technical Terms Used in Botany; New Family Herbal Class I-XXIV; Appendix; Index of English Names of Plants. Condition: GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Covers remarkably well preserved. Contents showing intermittent browning, toning and spotting throughout, however the majority remaining good. Previous owner name to title-page. One leaf with and edge cut just touching text. A rare survivor.