poisonous, noxious, and suspected plants of our fields and woods
By: by Anne Pratt.
Contributors: Dickes, William, 1815-1892.; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education.; Richard Clay (Firm); Trickett & Son
Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Published: 1857
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Poisonous plants -- Great Britain.
Other titles: Poisonous plants.
Notes: Date taken from Docker, Alfred.  The colour prints of William Dickes, 1924.

"Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge."--T.p.

Colour wood-engraved plates are unsigned and without imprint.  All are with captions.

Plates were produced by William Dickes.  Cf. McLean, Ruari.  Victorian book design and colour printing, 1972.

Plates were produced using the "Baxter Process" of colour wood engraving.  Cf. Docker, Alfred.  The colour prints of William Dickes.

Plates are with the same imagery as the illustrations used in another edition of this title published in [1857] by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.  See McLean O 0505.

Another edition of this title was published in [1866] in London.  Cf. British Library Public Catalogue.

Includes "Index of Plants Referred to.": p. [207]-208.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1-4] at end.

Docker, Alfred.  The colour prints of William Dickes, 198.

McLean, Ruari.  Victorian book design and colour printing, p. 199.

MASS copy: Bound in light brown pebble-grain cloth blocked in blind with the spine blocked in gold.  With binder's ticket: "Trickett & Son  Binders.".  With yellow endpapers.  With presentation inscription: "Presented to James Bronn Henderson by M. S. Grondon Inspector of Schools Scots Settlement 10th July 1862", with an additional inscription: "Toronto Montreal".  With ownership inscriptions: "A. Henderson  Montreal" and "James B Henderson".  With extensive amateur portrait drawings in pencil.
Table of contents: value: Plants proved to be fatally poisonous to man; value: Plants from which poisonous substances are derived; value: Plants more or less noxious; value: Suspected plants.