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.
Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Published: 1857
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Poisonous plants -- Great Britain.
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.

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

According to Alfred Docker in "The colour prints of William Dickes", the plates were produced using the "Baxter Process" of colour wood engraving.

Illustrations are the same as those used on the plates in another edition of this title published in [1857] by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.  See McLean D 0906.

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

Each leaf with imprint on the lower margin: "Published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: Depository, Great Queen St. Lincoln's Inn Fields.--Price 1s.4d.per dozen.".

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

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

MASS copy: Bound in half green roan with marbled paper-covered boards; a.e. speckled red.  With the title blocked in gold on the spine.
Table of contents: value: Plants proved to be fatally poisonous to man; value: Plants from which poisonous substances are derived; value: Noxious plants; value: Plants more or less noxious; value: Suspected plants.