Lot 133 , Britten, James. European Ferns & Hibberd, Shirley. The Fern Garden. Two volumes. (2)

Britten, James. European Ferns & Hibberd, Shirley. The Fern Garden. Two volumes. (2) Britten, James. European Ferns, London, Paris & New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., [c. 1880], pp. 196, with 30 coloured plates from nature by D. Blair and woodcuts, decorative green cloth, decorative endpapers and gilt edges; Hibberd, Shirley. The Fern Garden; How to Make, Keep, and Enjoy It; or, Fern Culture Made Easy, second edition, London: Groombridge and Sons, 1869, pp. 148, with eight coloured plates and forty wood engravings, decorative green cloth and gilt edges.
£60-80

Condition:
Bindings with some wear to edges and extremities. Hibberd with tears to hinges and some movement to boards; Cystopteris regia plate detached but present. Some browning and spotting to endpapers and preliminaries, with intermittent spotting elsewhere; text and plates generally clean.