British ferns and their allies
Subtitle: an abridgment of the "Popular history of British ferns," and comprising the ferns, club-mosses, pepperworts and horsetails
By: by Thomas Moore ... ; with coloured illustrations by W. S. Coleman.
Contributors: Coleman, W. S. 1829-1904.; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905.; Savill, Edwards and Co.
Series: Books for the country
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Published: 1873
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 and mosses
Notes: Date based on form of printer's name and publisher's advertisement on endpaper for a publication entitled "The Education Act, revised to 1873".  Cf. Brown, Philip A. H.  London publishers and printers, 1982.

"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."--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. [121]-124.

Wood-engraved plates are the same (with some differences in colour) as those printed in colours by Edmund Evans in editions of this title published by Routledge, Warne, and Routledge in 1861 and 1863, an edition published by George Routledge and Sons in 1866, 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 0758, McLean D 0759.1 and McLean D 0763.

With the same setting of type, illustrations and colour wood-engraved plates (with some slight differences in colour) as used in editions of this title published by George Routledge and Sons in 1865, [1869?] and [between 1870 and 1878]. See McLean D 0759, McLean D 0760 and McLean D 0761.

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 0759, McLean D 0760 and McLean D 0761. Upper cover printed with titling and with illustration similar to those within the text, including price: "One Shilling.".  Lower cover printed in black with general advertisement.  Spine with imprint: "1/-".  All sides of upper and lower endpapers printed with publisher's advertisements.  Upper endpapers with advertisement listing titles in the series "Books for the Country", the list including "British Ferns".  Upper to lower endpapers paginated p. 1-6.