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The Minerva Press, London, 1972, limited edition, copy number 200 of 500,. /Dust Jacket Included. 1972. Hardcover. 0856360058 hardback, large 8vo, (xii),251pp, illustrated, slight browning, otherwise clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. wrapper edges rubbed, price-clipped. ISBN: 0856360058 .

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1927. First edition. Cloth. Good. 9.5" by 6.5". R. Millais. A beautifully illustrated work on the species, history, and care of magnolias, written by gardening expert John Guille Millais. A fascinating and comprehensive work on the care, species, and cultivation of magnolias, a flowering plant from the Magnoliaceae family.Written by John Guille Millais, a nineteenth and twentieth century British artist and naturalist who wrote many works on different species of plants. The first and only edition of this work. Containing ten collotype plates and twenty-four half-tone plates, many from photographs and many from the art of Raoul Millais, John Guille Millais's son. Collated and complete.  In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. Externally, sound, with shelf wear to the boards and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Slight fading to the spine and extremities, and a ring stain to the front board. Internally, generally firmly bound.… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Longmans, Green, 1927. Octavo, viii, 251 pages plus 39 plates. Cloth with the dustwrapper; spine a little sunned, dustwrapper a little marked, torn and chipped with some loss; edges foxed; bookplate on the pastedown; a very good copy.