"S. Gosnell, printer, Little Queen Street, London"--Verso of t.p

Includes indexes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [vii]-xi)

Pritzel

Stafleu & Cowan. Taxonomic lit. (2nd ed.)

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SCNHRB copy 39088013393749 has bookplates: 1. Ex libris A. de Kluijs (with stamp on front free endpaper: Boekerij A.P.M. de Kluijs, Tilburg); 2. Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Dr. Dan H. Nicolson (with Nicolson's autograph, dated June 1976, on front free endpaper)

SCNHRB copy has many ms. pencil and ink annotations and markings throughout the text and margins; some of the annotations in the margins are partially affected by cropped fore-edges

SCNHRB copy has the following laid-in items: 1. A printed form completed in ms. ink ([1] p.), a memorandum dated March 5, 1842, declaring that John Woodham Dunn, B.A., Curate of Matterdale, had declared his conformity to the liturgy of the United Church of England and Ireland, etc.; 2. An illustrated plate ([1] p.) apparently removed from an unidentified book, with caption: "Urn and fragment of silex from a cist at Amble"; 3. reprint of an article from Taxon (v. 34, no. 2, May 1985, p. 295-296), "Overlooked combinations in the Commelinaceae published by Robert Sweet and J.C. Loudon," by R.B. Faden; 4. Five pieces of paper with handwritten comments in pencil and ink by various persons, apparently in evaluation of sketches/paintings entered in an art competition[?]

SCNHRB copy has a later brown half-cloth binding with marbled paper boards, a gilt-lettered spine, a handwritten cover label, yellow endpapers, and blue sprinkled edges

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