British mosses
Subtitle: their homes, aspects, structure, and uses; with a coloured figure of each species etched from nature
By: by F. E. Tripp.
Contributors: Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893.; Chiswick Press
Publisher: George Bell and Sons
Published: 1874
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Mosses -- Great Britain
Notes: "The illustrations have been etched on the copper and coloured by hand directly from the living specimen" - preface.

Despite the claim in the preface, the title page and possibly the plates, are lithographed. Cf. Ruari McLean's notes at Massey College Library.

The hand-colouring of the plates is by Benjamin Fawcett. Cf. M.C.F. Morris, Benjamin Fawcett: colour printer and engraver. London, 1925.

Text printed at the Chiswick Press.

MASS copy: Bound in green sand-grain cloth blocked in blind, with title blocked in gold on spine. Publisher's advertisements (8 p.) dated June 1882 bound in at end of each volume.