THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW: Historical and Descriptive by W.J.Bean, Assitant Curator. With an Introduction by Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, K.C.M.G., LL.D, F.R.S. etc.

Cassell and Company, Limited, 1908

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Year of publication

1908

Place of printing

London

Author

[Gardens, English Gardens], Bean

Publishers

Cassell and Company, Limited

Edition

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES ONLY, ILLUSTRATED

First edition

Yes

Description

First Edition, Large Paper, Numbered and Limited to 100 copies only, A copy with pleasing provenance having come from the holdings of the London and Middlesex Archeological Library. Illustrated throughout with 20 fine colourplates tipped onto full-pages, each with descriptive tissue guards from paintings by H.A. Olivier and 40 half-tone plates from photographs by E.J. Wallis. Large 4to, publisher's original fully decorated cloth, the spine beautifully decorated and lettered in gilt and dark-green, the upper cover elaborately decorated in all over designs of gilt and dark-green surrounded by double fillet and elaborate borders. Royal Coat of Arms at the center. xx, 222 pp. A very handsome copy, very well preserved, clean and tight with only minimal evidence of age or use.