green fields and their grasses
By: by Anne Pratt.
Contributors: Read, Samuel, 1815-1883.; Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903.; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education.; Truscott and Son
Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Published: 1856
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Grasses -- Great Britain.
Notes: "Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge."--T.p.

"The tribe of Grasses is so large that in a little work of this kind it is not possible to enumerate more than a small portion of their number.  The author has therefore selected for notice such species as are common --such as make our meadows, and hills, and valleys green by their abundance.  By the aid of the engravings, she hopes that the reader will be enabled to recognise many grasses familiar to him, and to gain some small knowledge of their history and uses.  Of the grass-plants of other lands little is said here, save in some few instances, in which they are characteristic of scenery, or form the source of food to large multitudes of the human family."--Preface.

Most wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned.  One is with signature: "E. S.".

MASS copy: Bound in half maroon morocco and blue paper-covered boards printed in black; a.e. speckled red.  Covers printed with replicated t.p. within wood-engraved floral border with signatures: "S. Read" and "J. W. Whimper".