1812 · Bungay
by (HERBALS, ENGLISH). HILL, SIR JOHN
Bungay: C. Brightly and Co. and T. Kinnersley, 1812. Sixth Edition. 215 x 133 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/4"). viii, xl, 376 pp.
Sympathetic light speckled half calf over marbled paper boards, raised bands, red and black morocco labels. With 54 hand-colored plates, including frontispiece, illustrating plants discussed in the text. A couple of ink corrections in a contemporary hand. Johnston 760. ◆Variable foxing, with perhaps a fourth of the text noticeably foxed, but the plates almost entirely unaffected, a few stains to the gutter from pressed flowers (now absent), other trivial defects, but a perfectly readable copy, with quite attractive plates, in a pleasing, (truncated)
Sympathetic light speckled half calf over marbled paper boards, raised bands, red and black morocco labels. With 54 hand-colored plates, including frontispiece, illustrating plants discussed in the text. A couple of ink corrections in a contemporary hand. Johnston 760. ◆Variable foxing, with perhaps a fourth of the text noticeably foxed, but the plates almost entirely unaffected, a few stains to the gutter from pressed flowers (now absent), other trivial defects, but a perfectly readable copy, with quite attractive plates, in a pleasing, (truncated)