[MCALPINE, Daniel]. The Botanical Atlas: A Guide to the Practical Study of Plants, Containing Representatives of the Leading Forms of Plant Life with Explanatory Letterpress [Part One: Cryptogams - Part Two: Phanerogams]. Published by W. & A. K. Johnston, Edinburgh, 1883.
First edition. Two parts bound in one. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Folio (355 x 285 x 30 mm.). Unpaginated - plates followed by explanatory letterpress. Part One: Cryptogams with 26 leaves of colour-plates; Part two: Phanerogams with 26 leaves of colour-plates. English text. Contemporary half-leather. Spine gilt with five raised bands. All page edges gilt. Patterned endpapers. Coloured frontispiece with tissue-guard. Index, appendix and classification table to rear. Condition: Collated complete. Binding tight and secure with the hinges intact. Very mild rubbing to extremities and some mild marking to edges of boards. Contents beautifully preserved, being largely fresh and clean. Without previous ownership markings.
Notes: A superbly illustrated Victorian work aimed at those with an interest in the various forms of plant life - the colouring of the plates was as close to nature as possible.
