Conversations on Botany

The seventh edition of this charming and influential botanical dialogue attributed to the Fitton sisters, retaining two colour plates. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding, rebacked with later red cloth, with renewed endpapers.First published in 1817, this is the seventh edition.Anonymously published, the work has been attributed to Elizabeth and Sarah Mary Fitton.Retaining two of twenty-one colour plates "Parts of a Flower" and "Table of the Classes," bound without the remaining nineteen, with no evidence of their removal. Collated accordingly.A popular early botanical primer presented in conversational form, designed to introduce the principles of plant science, classification. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding, rebacked with later red cloth.Endpapers renewed. Externally, generally smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. The odd minor handling mark to boards. Small ink stain to front board. Slight fading to perimeters of boards. Internally, firmly bound. Bound without nineteen plates, retaining two of the original twenty-one. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot to fore edge. Title page slightly age toned, with the odd light spot. Slight offsetting from plates to facing pages. Good.…