F. Edward Hulme - Familiar Wild Flowers (Complete 8 Series in 4 Books) - 1902

Complete Set with Beautiful Botanical Coloured Plates

Four books, series 1 to series 8 inclusive. Each book includes 2 series. This work contains thorough descriptions of each wild flower, as well as their habitats and uses in medicine. Each series with 160 pages, and forty colour plates, more like finished paintings, printed on thick paper. Several black and white in-text illustrations. Illustrated capital letter to each chapter head. The quality and charm of the plates together with a more than usually informative letterpress made the work an immediate success and it was several times reissued in various formats.

Published by Cassell And Company, Limited, London, 1902. Publishers’ original matching volumes in floral decorative green covers. Gilt titles on cover and spine

Book Dimensions: 20 x 14 and Number of Pages (8 Series): 1280 + 23 page in series eight of colour index, index of English names, index of botanical names, and index of botanical orders and genera represented in the work.

Nice publication with weight over 3.2 kg without packaging

Condition
The books are beautifully bound, designed, and illustrated. External covers in nice shape, bright and clean, with light wear to corners, and to head and tail of spines. Internally; in very good condition indeed. Old inscriptions with neat ink on first front free endpaper pages of all volumes. Few plates are missing at the first pages of first series (4 plates) and third series (2 plates). Inner hinges are very good, and pages are tightly held at the gutter. Pages are clean with occasional light foxing marks to some pages. The plates are clean and bright (Lovely Set) (Please see pictures).

Frederick Edward Hulme
"Frederick Edward Hulme (1841-1909), naturalist and artist, was born in Staffordshire England, the son of Frederick William Hulme, a landscape painter. In 1870 he was appointed art and drawing master at Marlborough College, which was around the time he published Familiar Wild Flowers, his best known work. Familiar Garden Flowers was published later in his career, and the plates reveal the same level of skill and beauty exhibited in his earlier works."