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Illustrations of the Fungi of our fields and woods.
London: for the author, 1864-1865. 2 volumes, 4to (310 x 240 mm). 20 hand-colored lithographic plates. Original blind-stamped green cloth, large gilt toadstool device to upper cover. Condition: internally clean; both volumes rebacked. Provenance : Lynn Abbott Trust. First Edition [ With: ] BADHAM, Charles David A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England. London: Reeve, Brothers, 1847. 8vo (250 x 175 mm). 16pp. small format publisher’s advertisements, dated June 1859, bound at the rear. Hand-colored lithographic frontispiece, 20 lithographic plates (17 hand-colored). Orignal purple cloth, covers blocked in blind, the upper cover with central gilt device of fungi, spine lettered in gilt. Condition: faded, spine re-glued and withchips to head and tail of spine. Provenance : Lynn Abbott Trust. First Edition. A valuable and attractive work on British edible fungi, the introduction includes a brief survey of the size and regulation of the market for ‘funghi’ in Italy.