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.; Leighton, John, 1822-1912.; Savill and Edwards
Edition: New edition, revised / with illustrations from designs by Noel Humphreys.
Publisher: G. Routledge & Co.
Published: 1858
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Wild flowers -- Great Britain.
Other titles: Wild flowers :; Wanderings among the wild flowers
Notes: Includes "Preface to the Fourth Edition.": p. [iii]-vi.

Some colour wood-engraved plates are with signature: "E. Evans Sc.".

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

With the same setting of type (with different signature marks), wood-engraved illustrations and plates as used in the "Fourth Edition" entitled "Wanderings among the wild flowers" published in 1857 by G. Routledge & Co.  See McLean D 1102.

With the same setting of type, wood-engraved illustrations and plates as used in another "New Edition" of this title published in 1859 by Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge.  See McLean D 1104.

With the same setting of type, wood-engraved illustrations and plates as used in another edition of this title published [between 1868 and 1878] by George Routledge and Sons.  See McLean D 1105.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1]-6 and [1]-32 at end.

MASS copy: Bound in blue bead-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 used on the cover of McLean D 1102 and McLean D 1104. Spine blocked in gold with the same design and titling as McLean D 1104.  Spine with signature: "JL" [i.e. John Leighton]. With pale yellow endpapers.  With bookseller's label: "Mann Nephews  Booksellers &  Stationers  39, Cornhill.  London.".