Ferns: British and Exotic (8 volumes)

Edward Joseph Lowe; A. F. Lydon, Benjamin Fawcett

George Bell & Sons, London, 1872

[Pteridology: Profusely illustrated with Color Plates] 8 volume set. 26 cm. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and covers. Spines slightly sunned. Clean, unmarked pages.  479 chromolithographed plates.  Plates by Benjamin Fawcett after A.F. Lydon. Collation: Vol. 1: [4], x, 160 p., L leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 162 p., LXVI leaves of plates; v. 3: [4], 142 p., L leaves of plates; v. 4: [4], 174 p., LXIV leaves of plates; v. 5: [4], 168 p., LVI leaves of plates; v. 6: [4], 136, [2] p., L leaves of plates; v. 7: [4], 181, [1] p., LXVI leaves of plates; v. 8: [4], 261, [1] p., LXXVII leaves of plates. All plates protected by guard sheets, except those serving as frontispieces.  Ref: Nissen, C. Die botanische Buchillustration, 1243. Second edition, the first published in serialized form in London between 1856 and 1860. 

Contents: V.1. Containing gymnogramma, nothochlaena, niphobolus, polypodium, in part; v.2. Containing polypodium, in conclusion, struthiopteris, nevrodium, hymenolepis, vittaria, ceratopteris; v.3. Containing adiantum, onychium, platyloma, allosorus, dorypteris, pteris, in part; v.4. Containing pteris, in conclusion, hypolepis, cheilanthes, doodia, blechnum, woodwardia, stenochlaena, brainea, lomaria. V.5. Containing asplenium, diplazium, hemidictyum, ceterach, scolopendrium; v.6. Containing onoclea, fadyenia, cyclopeltis, didymochlaena, aspidium, in part; v. 7. Containing aspidium, in conclusion, olfersia, hypoderris, hymenodium, mesochlaena, acrostichum, oleandra, polybotrya, nephrolepis, platycerium, woodsia, ophioglossum, cystopteris, botrychium, hemionitis; v.8. Osmunda, Hymenophyllum, Trichomanes, Davallia, Thyrsopteris, Cibotium, Trichiocarpa, Deparia, Dicksonia, Gleichenia, Cyathea, Hemitelia, Alsophila, Todea, Dictyoxiphium, Mohria, Anemidictyon, Lygodium, Angiopteris, Marattia. 

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