The Woodlands Orchids
BOYLE, Frederick
Described and illustrated with Stories of Orchid-Collecting. [Illustrations by by J.L. Macfarlane].
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Published: Macmillan, 1901
Stock code: 29601
Price: £234.00
8vo., First Edition, with 16 fine chromolithographed plates by Macfarlane, free endpapers mildly browned; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, an unusually bright, clean copy.
A key account. Boyle was commissioned by Robert Measures to catalogue and describe the orchid collection at The Woodlands, his estate at Streatham in south-west London. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.