The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworths and Horsetails stix inscribed by the author to

inscribed by the author to Nancy Wigginton (Nan Winton) the first female newreader to read the national news on BBC television

Without inscriptions

and gilt title and standing rifleman to the spine

with some losses to edges

corners worn

The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworths and Horsetails stix inscribed by the author toLondon: Frederick Warne, 1899. New edition, in four volumes, wholly revised by Edward Step. Royal 8vo (10 x 6. 5 ins); pp. xiv, (1), 269; xii, 279; xi, 258; xi, 213. 319 coloured plates and 5 uncoloured plates in total, including the frontispieces (with tissue guards). Original decorative Art Nouveau cloth, gilt title lettering to front and spines, top edges gilt. Ex. libris Violet Ormonde Matthews with ink inscription dated 1899 to front of vol I.