British ferns and their allies
Subtitle: an abridgment of the "Popular history of British ferns," and comprising the ferns, club-mosses, pepperworts, & horsetails
By: by Thomas Moore ... ; with illustrations by W. S. Coleman, printed in colours by Evans.
Contributors: Coleman, W. S. 1829-1904.; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905.; Leighton, John, 1822-1912.; Savill and Edwards; Bone & Son
Publisher: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge
Published: 1861
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Ferns -- Great Britain.; Pteridophyta -- Great Britain.; Club mosses -- Great Britain.
Other titles: British ferns and their allies :
Notes: Publisher's advertisement on t.p. verso: "Moore's "British Ferns." A cheap edition of this work, with the illustrations, is to be obtained, price one shilling.".

"Being intended as a first book, many details of structure, of distribution, &c., have also been omitted with the view of simplifying the main features of the subject.  When these have been well mastered, the inquirer will meet with additional useful information in the more extended "Popular History of British Ferns,"* already mentioned. *A Popular History of British Ferns, and the Allied Plants. By Thomas Moore ... 3rd and revised edition.  London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, Farringdon Street."--Preface.

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

Wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned.

Includes "Index of Scientific and English Names.": p. [183]-187.

With the same setting of type, illustrations and plates as used in an edition of this title published [between 1887 and 1888] by George Routledge and Sons.  See McLean D 0763.

With the same setting of type, illustrations and plates as used in an edition of this title published in 1863 by Routledge, Warne and Routledge.  See McLean D 0758.

Wood-engraved plates are with the same imagery as used on those printed in black and white in a "New edition" of this title published by George Routledge and Sons in 1865.  See McLean D 0759.

With the same setting of type, illustrations and plates as used in an edition of this title published in 1866 by George Routledge and Sons.  See McLean D 0759.1.

Wood-engraved plates are the same (with some differences in colour) as those used in editions of this title published by George Routledge and Sons in [1869?], [between 1870 and 1878] and [between 1873 and 1878].  See McLean D 0760, McLean D 0761 and McLean D 0762.

MASS copy: Bound in lavender bead-grain cloth blocked in blind with the spine blocked in gold.   Spine with the same design as used on McLean D 0758. Spine with signature: "JL' [i.e. John Leighton].  With binder's ticket: "Bound by  Bone & Son,  76, Fleet Street,  London.".