Added chromolithographed illustrated t.p.

"This little volume is intended as an introduction to a study at once agreeable, useful, and humanizing. It does not deal, however, with the scientific elements or technicalities of Botany. It is an introduction in this sense only: that, by describing the remarkable characteristics of some famous trees and singular plants, it shows how genuine is its interest, how delightful its variety, how manifold are its uses: and thus -- the writer hopes -- will induce the youthful reader to cultivate a further knowledge of the science."--Preface signed "W. H. D. A." [i.e. W. H. Davenport Adams].

Authorship taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

T.p. printed within thin black rule border.

Wood-engraved plates included in pagination.

Preliminary chromolithographed plate is unsigned and without imprint.

A few wood-engraved illustrations and plates are signed "W. H. Freeman" [i.e. William Henry Freeman?]. One is signed "DW Sc.".

Includes wood-engraved decorative head-pieces, tail-pieces and small initials.

With the same setting of type, wood-engraved plates and illustrations and chromolithographed plate as used in an edition of this title published in 1877 by T. Nelson and Sons. See McLean D 0013.85.

MASS copy: Bound in green sand-grain cloth blocked in black and blind with the spine blocked in gold, in the same design as McLean D 0013.85. With light yellow glazed endpapers. With partially erased ownership inscription dated 1873: "[ ...] Stevens".