Elwes, Henry John

FIRST EDITIONS, together 2 volumes, and 2 further parts, folio (551 x 375mm.), dedication leaf, hand-coloured map, mounted photographic plate, 48 hand-coloured lithographs by W.H. Fitch, Supplement with errata slip and 40 lithographed plates after Alice Snelling and Margaret Stokes, non-uniform contemporary half morocco, the Supplement with the original wrappers to the parts bound in at end, the final two parts of the supplement in original wrappers

Great Flower Books, p.56; Nissen BBI 594; Stafleu TL2 1664

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A FINE COMPLETE COPY. "Elwes is remembered not primarily as a scientist—he had no formal scientific training and relied on co-authors for the strictly botanical sections of his writings—but as a traveller, collector, and particularly as a plantsman. He knew what to collect, was determined in his travels to find it, was highly observant in describing the geographical distribution of what he found, and was particularly skilled in propagating specimens he brought back" (ODNB).