Wayside and Woodland Blossoms
STEP, Edward
A Pocket Guide to British Wild-Flowers for the Country Rambler. First Series [with] Second Series [with] Third Series.
BRIGHT, CLEAN SET
Published: Warne, [1928-29]
Stock code: 38288
Price: £74.00
3 vols., sm. 4to., with fine coloured frontispieces, 318 fine coloured plates, 87 plates in monochrome, 409 illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of burgundy faux-morocco cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt and lettered in gilt and black, gilt backs, red sprinkled edges, a very good, bright, clean set.
The set comprises First Series (1928); Second Series (1928); Third Series (1929). The progenitor of the Wayside and Woodland series, first published as one (and subsequently two) volumes in 1895-6. The third volume, dealing mainly with the monocotyledons and a chapter on Orchids, was added by Step in 1929 as part of his overall revision for the New Edition of the work. A bright crisp set. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE. Marren pp.136-142.