A Plain and Easy Account of the British Fungi

M. C. Cooke

London

:

Robert Hardwicke

,

1871

.
Second Edition.

17cm x 10.5cm. viii, 166 pages, 24 hand-coloured plates. Original green blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering and decoration.

With descriptions of the esculent and poisonous species, details of the principles of scientific classification, and a tabular arrangement of orders and genera. The second edition of Cooke’s first book on mushrooms. 24 plates (including frontispiece and printed title) printed by his brother, Ebenezer Cooke, and hand-coloured. An unrecorded second printing of VOLBRACHT 399.2. This copy with extensive pencil marginalia.

Minor soil to upper board. Light rubbing to cloth edges. Title page extremely tender. Bookseller’s label of Veuve J. Royveau. Good Condition.