Sir James Edward Smith - The English Flora, plus supplementary volume on Cryptogamia by W J Hooker, - 1828-33

2nd edition. Hardback. 5 volumes, 8vo., xlv,371 + viii,470 + viii,512 + vi,373 + x,432pp, scattered foxing, VG., marbled end-papers, full green calf gilt, raised bands,a little worn wih some loss at head of spine of volume 1. An early edition of this classic work usually including the 5th volume on the lower cryptogams, mosses, hepatics, lichens, characeae & algae