British ferns and their allies
Subtitle: comprising the ferns, club-mosses, pepperworts and horsetails
By: by Thomas Moore ... ; with illustrations, printed in colours by Evans.
Contributors: Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905.
Series: Books for the country
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Published: 1887
Place of publication: London; Glasgow; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Ferns -- Great Britain.; Pteridophyta -- Great Britain.; Club mosses -- Great Britain.
Notes: Date based on form of publisher's name and address.  Cf. Topp, Chester W.  Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, Vol. I, 1993.

Publisher's advertisement on t.p. verso for six titles in the series: "Books for the country".

Originally published as part of the series: "Books for the country".  Topp, Chester W.  Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, Vol. I, 1993.

"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 and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate."--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 editions of this title published in 1861 and 1863 by Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, and an edition published in 1866 by George Routledge and Sons. See McLean D 0757, McLean D 0758 and McLean D 0759.1.

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.

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 red-brown fine diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in gold and black.  Lower cover blocked in black with publisher's monogram: "GR&S".  Spine with imprint: "Routledge".  Boards with bevelled edges.  With light yellow glazed endpapers.