Wayside and Woodland Trees
STEP, Edward
A Guide to the British Sylva. Revised by A. Keith Jackson and A. Bruce Jackson. With colour Plates by Dorothy Fitchew. [Second Edition, Sixth Impression].
Published: Warne, [1951]
Stock code: 17462
Price: £12.00
Sm. 8vo., Second Edition, Sixth Impression, with a coloured frontispiece, 23 coloured plates, 151 plates in monochrome, 58 illustrations in the text and pictorial keys; original series binding of green leather-effect cloth, upper board elaborately blocked with gilt hazel spray and lettered in gilt and black, gilt back, radial corners, sprinkled edges, photographic endpapers, a near fine copy.
The second title in Warne's famous series, Step's classic survey was the first to appear (in 1904) in the now familiar 'dumpy' W&W format. The second edition, revised by the Jacksons and with outstanding plates by Fitchew, followed in 1940 and was several times reissued. Uncommon in this condition. See Marren pp.142-4.