Second edition, revised and enlarged. Illustrated with 71 fine colour plates of plants, and 5 colour plates of seeds, pp 192, large octavo, the endpapers are a little marked, otherwise clean internally, three hinges are cracking and a little exposed, but not weak, original stout textured cloth a little rubbed and marked, a little worn at the corners, the spine dull. With the bookplate of the garden designer James Russell. The lithographic plates, by Norman Criddle, are extremely attractive and very well produced. [James {Jim} Russell was the creator of many of the modern features of the gardens at Castle Howard, including the new Arboretum and Ray Wood. The design of the bookplate is by Felix Kelly and it was a present to Jim on his seventieth birthday from George Howard.]