Johns Boulger (12 results)

Condition: Good. 1919. No edition remarks. 431 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. revised edition. the boards are a bit scuffed. mild foxing. gift inscription. all pages, though a little discolored , remain clean, sure and presentable. a very good copy considering its age. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

hardback, 8vo, l,612pp, 64 colour plates, slight foxing, marbled edges and endpapers, prize bookplate, full leather binding, gilt crest on front board, rubbed, lacks spine title label, front spine edge starting to crack, Good condition.

leather. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. From the collection of Sister Benedicta, Oxford. Gold embossed leatherbound hardcover, without dust jacket, in acceptable condition for its age. Boards are worn, and corners are bowed. Extensive wear to the spine, which has been taped. Spine ends are creased and spine is cocked. Ex Libris public library label to the front pastedown, and 'Ex Libris Convent of the Incarnation Fairacres, Oxford' label to FEP. Other labels on front paste down and FEP have been removed, leaving remnants. Page block is marked and discoloured, some of which has leached on to the pages. Tissue paper within is also worn with small tears. Hinge break at front cover, and gutter breaks at pages 97, 145, 193 and 353. Sixteen colour plates, pages and text are otherwise clean and bright throughout. LW. Used.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Thirtieth new and enlarged edition hardback, 1902, with no jacket. In overall good condition with some rubbing to edges and corners. Binding tight - front pastedown covering slightly cracked at gutter revealing mesh but hinge strong, no annotations or inscriptions; tanning to page-ends but text and illustrations clean and clear throughout.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. Undtaed because copyright and title pages removed otherwise tight copy Edition without Jacket on green cloth gilt lettering - collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A smart, richly illustrated volume of Flowers of the Field. This edition of Flowers of the Field has been entirely rewritten and revised by G. S. Boulger from the original text by Rev. C. A. Johns.This volume aims to introduce the lover of nature to the common British flowering plants and to teach the unscientific how to find out the names of the flowers that can be encountered on country walks.Richly illustrated throughout the volume.With six pages of publisher adverts to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding, Externally, very smart with some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and some fading to the spine. A previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper. Hinges are starting and remain generally firmly. Internally, firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Worn 31st editiona loose binding with stained cover boards.

Full-Leather. Condition: Near Very Good. Thirtieth Edition. Handsome contemporary Black Full-Leather Prize Binding with bright Gilt High School Lettering and central Medallion of Athen'a Head. 5 Raised Bands to spine with Gilt Title in 2nd Compartment and blind stamped leaf motif in others. Same motif in corners of front and rear with Black linear border design. Endpapers and all page edges Marbled. Rev. John's Classic work on Wild Flowers, well illustrated with many B&W In-Text illustrations. 926 Pages. 7" Tall, Spine colour faded to brown. Some scrapes around edges of leather (see photo). No inscriptions. Pages in very good, clean condition. Weighs 1.1 Kilos packed so Shipping outside Uk will be a little extra. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A revised and colourfully illustrated edition of Johns' best-known work, often referred to as "the bible of the amateur botanist". The thirty-fifth edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and sixty-three further colour plates based on watercolours by Stackhouse and numerous in-text illustrations. Collated complete. First published in 1851, Flowers of the Field was so successful that more than fifty editions were printed; indeed, it was still in print a century after it was first published. Considered as the "bible of the amateur botanist," it is now a standard reference work, providing information on English plants and their uses. Johns gives both common and Latin names following the Linnaean system. Written by Charles Alexander Johns, a British botanist and educator who was the author of a long series of popular books on natural history. This edition was revised, with a memoir of the author, by George Simonds Boulger, an English botanist who wrote articles as the Kew Gardens Correspondent of The Times. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Rear hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A revised and colourfully illustrated edition of Johns' best-known work, often referred to as "the bible of the amateur botanist". The thirty-fifth edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Previous owner's ink inscription to the front paste down.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and sixty-three further colour plates based on watercolours by Stackhouse and numerous in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.First published in 1851, Flowers of the Field was so successful that more than fifty editions were printed; indeed, it was still in print a century after it was first published.Considered as the "bible of the amateur botanist," it is now a standard reference work, providing information on English plants and their uses. Johns gives both common and Latin names following the Linnaean system.This edition was revised by G. S. Boulger, with a memoir of the original author Charles Alexander Johns. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light shelf wear to the extremities. Spine is a little faded with a couple of small marks. Front hinge is slightly strained, showing webbing, but remains firmly held by cords. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Very Good. book.

Thick 8vo. 8 x 5.5 inches. l + 611 + [1] pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt with light blue titles and block on front board. Spine and boards partly sunned and browning of flyleaves; otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated by portrait, by 64 colour plates, including frontispiece and by numerous engraved text figures. A standard botanical reference book (first SPCK edition published 1851) by Charles Alexander Johns (1811-74), botanist and educator, who was ordained 1842. This edition revised by George Simonds Boulger (1853-1922), who was Professor of Natural History at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester and Lecturer in Botany at the City of London College, and later at the Imperial Institute. Includes a memoir of Johns by Boulger. BOTANY FLOWERS BOTANY PLANTS 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED BOTANY.