A Text-Book of Botany

A very scarce early edition of this botany guidebook which is the tenth impression. Tenth impression, fifth edition, of this early twentieth century study and guidebook to botany by J. M. Lowson, in original publisher's cloth binding.This study advances on the scientific reasoning for the best treatment of flowers. Contents include nutrition and growth, fruits and seed, reproduction, and the vascular cryptogams.Lowson was the headmaster of the Burgh Technical School and Head of the Science Departments in the High School and the Royal Academy, Inverness. He was formally a lecturer at University Tutorial College, London.Includes ink inscription from prior owner to the first free endpapers dated 1919.Publisher's adverts to the verso of the title page.Includes preface to the fifth edition.With illustrations within the text throughout. In original publisher's cloth binding. Externally with some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, and some wear to the spine, particularly the head of the spine. The hinges are starting but firm. Includes ink inscription from prior owner to the first free endpapers dated 1919.There is some spotting to the endpapers, but bright and clean throughout. Good. …