Wanderings among the wild flowers
Subtitle: how to see and how to gather them : with remarks on the economical & medicinal uses of our native plants
By: by Spencer Thomson ...
Contributors: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905.; Whymper, Elijah, fl. 1848-1863; Savill and Edwards; Bone & Son
Edition: Fourth edition, revised / with coloured illustrations from designs by Noel Humphreys.
Publisher: G. Routledge & Co.
Published: 1857
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Wild flowers -- Great Britain.
Other titles: Wanderings among the wild flowers:
Notes: Some colour wood-engraved plates are with signature: "E. Evans Sc.".

Several wood-engraved illustrations within the text are with signature: "E. Whimper Sc.".

Publisher's advertisements, dated June 1857: p. [1]-6 at end.

With the same setting of type (with different signature marks), wood-engraved illustrations and plates as used in a "New Edition" entitled "Wild flowers" published in 1858 by G. Routledge & Co. and in 1859 by Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge.  See McLean D 1103 and McLean D 1104.

With the same setting of type (with different signature marks), wood-engraved illustrations and plates as used in another edition entitled "Wild flowers" published [between 1868 and 1878] by George Routledge and Sons.  See McLean D 1105.

MASS copy: Bound in blue diagonal wave-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold with illustration similar to those within the text.  Illustration is the same as that used on the cover of McLean D 1103 and McLean D 1104.  With pale yellow endpapers.  With binder's ticket: "Bound by  Bone & Son,  76, Fleet Street,  London.".  With ownership inscription dated 1858: "Elizabeth A. Reade".