[HULME, F. EDWARD]. Familiar Wild Flowers. London: Cassell & Company, Limited, n.d. [ca. 1880].
REPRINT. Five volumes bound in one (complete), leather-bound, hardcover, thick octavo (19.5cm x 13.5cm x 7.5cm); pp. xvi, 160 + 40 plates; xv, 160 + 40 plates; xv, 160 + 41 plates; xvi, 160 + 40 -plates; xvi, 168 + 42 plates. English text with illustrations throughout. Handsomely rebound in half calf, green cloth sides, green endpapers, profusely illustrated throughout with 203 colour plates and numerous b&w drawings as chapter head- and tail-decorations, index to English names at rear. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, the hinges and joints intact, some minor rubbing to extremities. Contents complete with some very light scattered foxing. A handsome copy.
Notes: First to fifth series of F. Edward Hulme's striking work on wild flowers adorned with lovely coloured plates, here handsomely bound together.
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