F. Edward Hulme - Familiar Swiss Flowers (With 100 Coloured Plates) - 1908

Scarce first edition copy, with one hundred botanical colour plates, printed on quality papers. Published by Cassell And Company, London, 1908. Publishers’ original blue cloth elaborately decorated in gilt to the upper cover, and spine. Gilt lettering on spine. Top page edges gilt.

Book Dimensions: 20 x 14 and Number of Pages: 224 including index to popular names, English and local, index to botanical names, Botanical orders and genera

Condition
Firm and well-bound copy. External covers with light wear to corners, and minor rubbing to head and foot of spine. Internally; in very good condition. No names or inscriptions. Inner hinges are very good and pages are tightly held at gutters. Pages are bright and clean, with some notes with pencil on few pages and on the last blank front free endpaper pages; also some notes with ink to the index pages; otherwise, pages are thick, healthy, and clean. The plates are bright and fresh (Nice Copy) (Please see pictures)

Frederick Edward Hulme
"Frederick Edward Hulme (1841-1909), naturalist and artist, was born in Staffordshire England, the son of Frederick William Hulme, a landscape painter. In 1870 he was appointed art and drawing master at Marlborough College, which was around the time he published Familiar Wild Flowers, his best known work. Familiar Garden Flowers was published later in his career, and the plates reveal the same level of skill and beauty exhibited in his earlier works."