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 ALPINE PLANTS. 



Second Series. Containing Fifty-four Coloured Plates, with ono or two 

 Figures on each Plate. Descriptions and accurately-coloured Figures 

 (drawn and engraved expressly for this Work) of the most striking and 

 beautiful of the Alpine Plants. Edited by D.wid "W'oosteh. Price £1 5s. 



BRITISH MOSSES. 



Their Homes, Aspects, Structure, and Uses. Containing a Coloured Figure 

 of each species, etched from Nature. By F. E. Tkipp. Illustrated with 39 

 beautifully-coloured Plates. In Two Volumes, super-royal 8vo., £2 10s. 



•It is a book to read, to ponder, to mark, leam, and inwardly digest. . . . Let those who want to 

 know the '"morar' of mosses enquire within the covers of tlie volume. He will there find that 

 these humble plants have their uses, their virtues, and their mission.' — Morning Advertiser. 



HISTORY OF THE FISHES OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 



By Jonathan Couch, F.L.S.. Illustrated with 256 carefully coloured 

 Plates. New Edition, in Four Volumes, super-royal 8vo., price £4 4s. 



'The author, who is well known a-s one of the first practical authorities on British fishes, 

 has fur fifty years been obsen'ing. noting, and drawing, with his own pencil, the various fish 

 which live in British waters — a vast labour, in which he has been assisted by scientific fi'iends 

 living in various portions of the United Kingdom. The dr.awings are beautifully coloured to 

 life, and some of the portraits (especially of the dog-fish) are really mai'vellous, rendering 

 r.u recognition of a fish a work of the greatest ease.' — The Field. 



SOWERBY'S ENGLISH BOTANY: 



Containing a Description and Life-size coloured Drawing of every British 

 Plant. Edited and brought u|) to the Present Standard of Scientific 

 Knowledge by T. Boswell, (formerly Stme,) LL.D. F.L.S. &c. With 

 Popular Descriptions of the Uses, History, and Traditions of each Plant, by 

 Mrs. Lankestee, Author of 'Wild Flo'wers Worth Notice,' 'The British 

 Ferns,' &c. The Figures by J. E. Sowerbt, James Sowerbt, F.L.S., 

 J. De C. Sowerbt, F.L.S., and J. W. Salter, A.L.S. In Eleven Volumes, 

 with 1824 full-page coloured plates, super-royal 8vo. {For j'rices see p. 7.) 



'Under the editorship of T. Boswell Syme, F.L S., assisted by Mre. Lankester, "Sowerby's 

 English Botany," when finished, will be exhaustive of the subject, and worthy of the branch 

 of science it illustrates. ... In turning over the charmingly executed hand-coloured plates 

 of British jilants which encumber these volumes with riches, the reader cannot help being 

 stnick with the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with careless 

 step. AVe cannot dwe"ll upon many of the individuals grouped in the splendid bouquet of 

 flowers presented in these pages, and it will be sufiicient to state that the work is pledged to 

 contain a figure of every wild flower indigenous to these isles.'— 7Vie Times. 



'The most complete Flora of Great Britain ever brought out. This great work will find 

 a place wherever botanical science is cultivated, and thn study of our native plants, with all 

 their fascinating associations, held dear.' — Athtnteum. 



' Nothing can exceed the beauty and accuracy of the coloured figures. They are drawn 

 life-size— an advantage which eveiy young amateur will recognise who has vainly puzzled over 

 drawings in which a celandine is as big as a poppy— they are enriched with delicate delinea- 

 tions of fruit, petal, anther, and any organ wLich happens to be remarkable in its form— and 

 not a few plates are altogether new. ... A clear, bold distinctive type enables the reader 



