Beautiful leaved plants
Subtitle: being a description of the most beautiful leaved plants in cultivation in this country : to which is added an extended catalogue
By: by E. J. Lowe ... ; assisted by W. Howard ... ; with sixty coloured illustrations.
Contributors: Lydon, A. F.; Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893., (printer)
Publisher: Groombridge and Sons
Published: 1859
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Foliage plants; Leaves; Plants, Cultivated
Other titles: Beautiful leaved plants :
Notes: First issued in parts, 1859-1864.  Cf. Nissen, 1247 and Pritzel, 5642.

Issued in monthly parts, 1859-1861.  Cf. British Library Public Catalogue and "Introduction", p. [i].

Plates are unsigned.  Several wood-engravings within the text are signed "F.L." and one is signed "F. Lydon Dt." [i.e. Alexander Francis Lydon].

The plates are described by Nissen as coloured wood-engravings by B. Fawcett after A. F. Lydon.

Includes "Addenda": p. 127-144.

Pritzel (2nd ed.), 5642.

Nissen, 1247.

MASS copy: Separate monthly issued parts I-VIII [[2], ii, 50 p., XXIV leaves of plates], in original green printed wrappers, each with three colour plates.  With t.p. printed on upper covers.  Part number and "Price 1s" printed at head of t.p. With publisher's advertisements printed on inside of upper cover and both the inside and outside of lower cover. Part II, p. 12 and Part VI, p. 38 differ from McLean O 406, with an extra line of text; some signatures differ also.  Incomplete; lacking all after Part VIII.