Handsome Three Volumes With 120 Beautiful Botanical Coloured Plates Three Series (1, 2, and 3). Described by Shirley Hibberd. Each series with 160 pages and forty colour plates, more like finished paintings than prints. 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, ca.1898. The set is bound in uniform dark green cloth boards, with gilt decorations and lettering on upper covers, and spines. Top page edges gilt. Book Dimensions: 20 x 14 and Number of Pages (3 Series): 480 + 16 pages of publishers’ books in each volume Nice publication with weight over 1.3 kg without packaging Condition Firm and well-bound copies. Light wear to boards’ corners, and to head and tail of spines. Internally; in very good condition indeed. No names or inscriptions. Inner hinges are very good, and pages are tightly held at the gutter. Pages are clean with occasional spotting marks on few pages. The plates are bright and in very nice condition (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."