Thomas Green

The universal herbal; or, botanical, medical, and agricultural dictionary. Containing an account of all the known plants of the world, arranged according to the Linnean system... The second edition, revised and improved. London: Caxton Press, 1816-1823

Second edition, 2 volumes, 4to (262 x 209mm.), hand-coloured engraved frontispieces and additional titles (both volumes), 107 hand-coloured engraved plates, nineteenth century ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers, contemporary brown half russia, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, volume 2: creases to pp. 673-678,joints splitting, worming at head of spine,all volumes: transfer from plates onto facing leaves, extremities rubbed

LITERATURE:

Great Flower Books, p. 58; Nissen BBI 1882