Ferns : British and exotic

London : George Bell & Sons, 1872. Second edition. Eight volumes, octavo, publisher’s blind embossed maroon cloth (a few marks), gilt-lettered spines (slightly sunned), fern illustrations to upper panels, armorial bookplates for B. Jones-Bateman to upper pastedowns, line illustrations, 479 chromolithographed plates,

The second edition of Lowe’s expansive work on ferns, which was first published in instalments between 1856 and 1860. Published at the height of Victorian pteridomania (“fern mania”, Lowe’s Ferns : British and exotic includes numerous species from the Australian mainland and Tasmania.