The ivy
Subtitle: a monograph : comprising the history, uses, characteristics, and affinities of the plant, and a descriptive list of all the garden ivies in cultivation
By: by Shirley Hibberd ; illustrated with coloured plates and wood engravings.
Contributors: Slocombe, Alfred, fl. 1865-1886.; Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893.
Publisher: Groombridge & Sons
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
Subjects: Ivy.; Plants, Ornamental.
Other titles: Ivy : its history, uses and characteristics : illustrated; Ivy : its history and uses
Notes: Added ill. t.p. signed by A. Slocombe.

"The illustrations, both in colour and on wood are from the pencil of Alfred Slocombe ... "--P.3.

Colour plates printed by Benjamin Fawcett. Cf. McLean R. & A. Benjamin Fawcett, engraver and colour printer. 1988.

Text in ornamental borders.

Includes index.

MASS copy 1: Bound in dark green sand-grain cloth, blocked in gold, black and blind, a.e.g. With bookseller's label: "Sharland, Bookseller, Southampton", and with bookplate for: "Ruari McLean".

MASS copy 2: Bound in dark green diagonal fine rib-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind in same design on upper cover as copy 1 but with different design in blind on lower cover; a.e.g. With presentation inscription from the author dated June 1887.