Wild flowers
Subtitle: where to find, and how to know them : with remarks on the economical & medicinal uses of our native plants
By: by Spencer Thomson ... with illustrations from designs by Noel Humphreys.
Contributors: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905.; Whymper, Elijah, fl. 1848-1863.; Savill, Edwards and Co.
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Published: 1868
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Wild flowers -- Great Britain.
Other titles: Wild flowers :; Wanderings among the wild flowers
Notes: Date range based on form of printer's name.  Cf. Brown, Philip A. H.  London publishers and printers, 1982.

Includes "Preface to the Fourth Edition.": p. [v]-viii.

Some colour wood-engraved plates are with signature: "E. Evans Sc.".  All are printed on beige background tint.

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 the "New Edition" of this title published in 1858 by G. Routledge & Co. and in 1859 by Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge.  See McLean D 1103 and McLean D 1104.

Includes "Index.": p. [311]-322.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1-2] at end.

MASS copy: Bound in red-brown sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold with illustration similar to those within the text.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With pastel orange endpapers.  With bookseller's label: "Librairie Étrangère Barbery Fréres  Jardin Public, 7  Nice".