Makers Of British Botany.
£30.00
Publisher
at the University Press.
Place
Cambridge
Date
1913
Synopsis
A collection of biographies by living botanists. edited by f. w. oliver.
Item Description
8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. [viii] + 332 pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt. Extremities worn, including head and tail of spine. Ex-library copy with stamps. Flyleaves browned, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 26 black and white plates, including frontispiece, protected by tissue guard and by text figure. Decorated by publisher's device on verso of title. A work of collective biography of seventeen important British botanists, including John Ray, John Lindley and Joseph Henry Gilbert. Expanded from a course of lectures given in the Botanical Department of University College, London. Edited by Francis Wall Oliver (1864-1953), professor of botany at UCL.
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