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TWO VOLUMES: total 419 pp, plus 96 colour plates in each, jackets torn & some sections missing, previous owners inscription in both

First Edition Of Our Fields and Woods FIRST EDITION. 4to, title and 44 pages with chromo litho illustration and accompanying text on each leaf, badly damaged original green printed wraps, half spine missing, edges creased and worn, one page torn at edge, scarce item, but in poor condition.

2 vols 192 & 195 pp, illustrated with 191 colour plates of flowers small pocket books in green leather vol 2 may lack frontispiece faded spines marks to bindings and foxing to pages sold with all faults

New and Cheap Edition xiv, 269; xii, 279; xi, 258; xi, 215pp, plus illustrated with three hundred and fifteen coloured plates figuring upwards of 1500 species over the four volumes. Very good, clean set, in green cloth with gilt lettering (spells Britain as Britian on all four volumes...). Minor bumping to head and foot of spine and a tiny skew to volumes, but this is very minor. Ghosting to prelims but contents lovely and bright.

6 Volumes in the orginal publisher's green cloth with attractive gilt design, all edges gilt. A bright better than average set. Vol. I 288 pp, 47 coloured illustrations, tissue cover of frontis is loose, f.e.ps foxed, light foxing to frontis, very slight foxing occurs sporadically throughout, partic to illustrations, but we must emphasise that this is very slight foxing, and typically to the reverse of the illustration, endpapers foxed. slight wear to lower extremity of boards, dark mark to rear board. Vol. II 355 pp, [39] illustrations ( the spine lists 40, but all listed in the contents are present), foxing as on Vol. I, boards in same cond as Vol I minus dark mark at rear. Vol III 410 pp, 53 colour illustrations foxing as in prev. volumes, front board has suffered a deep scratch approx 2 cm long which has lifted a small portion of the cloth, boards otherwise as prev. volumes. Vol IV 328 pp, 53 colour illustrations, foxing as in prev vols, boards as prev vols. Vol V 368 pp, 50 colour illustrations, tissue over frontis loose, foxing confined only to f.e.ps and endpapers, boards as prev vols. Vol VI 319 pp, 76 colour illustrations, foxing as in prev vols, boards as prev. vols. Office