British ferns and their allies
Subtitle: an abridgment of the "Popular history of British ferns," and comprising the ferns, club-mosses, pepperworts, & horsetails
By: by Thomas Moore ... ; illustrated by W. S. Coleman.
Contributors: Coleman, W. S. 1829-1904.; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905.; Savill and Edwards
Edition: New edition.
Series: Books for the country -- no. 22
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Published: 1865
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Yellowback books -- Specimens.; Ferns -- Great Britain.; Pteridophyta -- Great Britain.; Club mosses -- Great Britain.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: British ferns :
Notes: Publisher's advertisement on t.p. verso: "'British Ferns.' A superior edition of this work, bound in cloth, with the illustrations printed in colours, is now ready, price three shillings and sixpence.".

"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, Warne, and Routledge, Farringdon Street."--Preface.

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. [121]-124.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1-4] at end.

Wood-engraved plates are with the same imagery as that on plates printed in colours by Edmund Evans in editions of this title published by Routledge, Warne, and Routledge in 1861 and 1863, an edition published in 1866 by George Routledge and Sons, and an edition published [between 1887 and 1888] by George Routledge and Sons.  Wood engraved illustrations within the text are also the same as those used in these editions.  See McLean D 0757, McLean D 0759.1, McLean D 0758 and McLean D 0763.

With the same setting of type, illustrations and imagery on wood-engraved plates (as printed in colours) as 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 yellow paper-covered boards printed in black, green and red in a similar design and with the same illustration as that used on McLean D 0760, McLean D 0761 and McLean D 0762. Upper cover printed with titling and with illustration similar to those within the text, including price: "One Shilling.".  Lower cover printed in black with publisher's advertisement and with imprint: "E. Evans, Engraver and Printer, Raquet Ct., Fleet St.".  All sides of upper and lower endpapers printed with publisher's advertisements.  Advertisement on upper free endpaper listing titles in the series "Books for the Country", the list including "22. British Ferns".  With later bookseller's label: "H. V. Day,  Dorchester.  Old & Rare Books, Maps and Prints.".  Spine re-backed.  With some amateur hand-colouring.