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MORDECAI CUBITT COOKE (1825-1913)
Ilustrations of British Fungi (Hymenomycetes), London: Williams and Norgate, 1881-1891. 8 volumes, 8° (222 x 138mm). Half titles, 1,198 hand-coloured and chromolithographed plates. (A few plates towards the front of volume one drawn upon and with old repairs, a few plates with a little cropped, hinges broken and some plates loose in volumes III and VI, occasional light spotting). Volumes III and VI original cloth (joints splitting on volume VI, edges rubbed), the other volumes modern library half morocco (lightly rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: library stamps on versos of a few plates. FIRST EDITION. Freeman 793; Nissen BBI 395. (8)
Ilustrations of British Fungi (Hymenomycetes), London: Williams and Norgate, 1881-1891. 8 volumes, 8° (222 x 138mm). Half titles, 1,198 hand-coloured and chromolithographed plates. (A few plates towards the front of volume one drawn upon and with old repairs, a few plates with a little cropped, hinges broken and some plates loose in volumes III and VI, occasional light spotting). Volumes III and VI original cloth (joints splitting on volume VI, edges rubbed), the other volumes modern library half morocco (lightly rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: library stamps on versos of a few plates. FIRST EDITION. Freeman 793; Nissen BBI 395. (8)
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