The Handbook of British Ferns: Being Descriptions, with Engravings, of the Species and their Varieties, together with Instructions for their Cultivation
- Publisher : Groombridge and Sons
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : text engravings
Description:
Third edition with numerous additions and new illustrations. The Journal of Botany stated that this work ‘has most deservedly reached a third edition. It has always been, and is now more than ever the best guide to a knowledge of our wild ferns’.
The 1850s were the highpoint of the Victorian fern craze, and Thomas Moore (1821-1887), writer on horticulture and Curator of the Chelsea Physic Garden, was ‘the supreme and unchallenged high priest of the [fern] cult’ (Allen, 1969).
Scarce.
Condition
Sm. 8vo (155x100mm), orig. green cloth, gt fern design to front board, aeg; spine worn with some loss to head and foot.