F. Edward Hulme - Familiar Wild Flowers (With 200 Colour Plates) - 1902

Handsome Set with 200 Beautiful Botanical Coloured Plates

Five volumes, series 1 to series 5. This work contains thorough descriptions of each wild flower, as well as their habitats and uses in medicine. Each series,

Each book with 160 pages, and has forty colour plates, more like finished paintings, printed on thick paper. Several black and white in-text illustrations. Illustrated capital letter to each chapter head. The quality and charm of the plates together with a more than usually informative letterpress made the work an immediate success and it was several times reissued in various formats.

Published by Cassell And Company, Limited, London, 1902. Publishers’ original matching volumes with floral decorative green covers. Gilt titles on cover and spine

Book Dimensions: 20 x 14 and Number of Pages (5 Series): 800 + 16 pages of publishers’ books at the end of each book
Nice publication with weight over 2.1 kg without packaging

Condition
The books are beautifully bound, designed, and illustrated. Firm and well-bound copies. External covers in nice shape, with light wear to corners, and to head and foot of spines. Internally; in nice condition. No names or inscriptions. Inner hinges are very good, and pages are tightly held at the gutter. Pages are clean with occasional light foxing marks to the margin of some pages, and page edges. The plates are clean and bright (Lovely Set) (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."