Orange cloth binding with black title and fern.

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Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). A bright copy of this charming botanical work concerning ferns, adorned with striking colourful plates. Dated from the advertisements. The abridged version of botanist and gardener Thomas Moore’s successful work the ‘Popular History of British Ferns,’ comprising a study and descriptions of ferns, club-mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails. A charming little volume containing a study of the wild plants, with plain and understandable descriptions of the plants. Adorned with twelve full page colour plates. Collated, complete. 3 pages of advertisements to the front and rear of the volume. In the original publisher’s full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, spine and boards only lightly bumped, spine lightly darkened. Pages are bright and clean. With twelve lovely full page colour plates. Very Good.

Thomas Moore (21 May 1821 – 1 January 1887) was a British gardener and botanist. An expert on ferns and fern allies from the British Isles, he served as Curator of the Society of Apothecaries Garden from 1848 to 1887. In 1855 he authored The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. The standard author abbreviation T.Moore is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.