The History of Rome, Vol. 2

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Sowerby's English Botany:

Containing a description and life-size colored drawing of every British plant. Edited and brought up to the present standard of scientific knowledge by T. Boswell Syme, LL.D., F.L.S., etc. With popular descriptions of the uses, history, and traditions of each plant, by Mrs. Lankester, author of "Wild Flowers Worth Notice," "The British Ferns," etc. The figures by J. E. Sowerby, James Sowerby, F.L.S., J. De C. Sowerby, F.L.S., and J. W. Salter, A.L.S. In eleven volumes, super-royal 8vo.

"Under the editorship of T. Boswell Syme, F.L.S., assisted by Mrs. 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-colored plates of British plants which encumber these volumes, the reader cannot help being struck with the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with careless step. We cannot dwell upon many of the individuals grouped in the splendid bouquet of flowers presented in these pages, and it will be sufficient to state that the work is pledged to contain a figure of every wild flower indigenous to these isles." —Times.

"Will be the most complete Flora of Great Britain ever brought out. This great work will find a place wherever botanical science is cultivated, and the study of our native plants, with all their fascinating associations, held dear." —Athenæum.

"A clear, bold, distinctive type enables the reader to take in at a glance the arrangement and divisions of every page. And Mrs. Lankester has added to the technical description by the editor an extremely interesting popular sketch, which follows in smaller type. The English, French, and German popular names are given, and, wherever that delicate and difficult step is at all practicable, their derivation also. Medical properties, superstitions, and fancies, and poetic tributes and illusions, follow. In short there is nothing more left to be desired." —Guardian.

"Without question, this is the standard work on Botany, and indispensable to every botanist. . . . The plates are most accurate and beautiful, and the entire work cannot be too strongly recommended to all who are interested in botany." —Illustrated News.

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Or, the eleven volumes, 22l. 8s. in cloth; 24l. 12s. in half-morocco; and 28l. 3s. 6d. whole morocco.

A Supplementary Volume, containing ferns and other cryptogami original: "non-flowering plants", in preparation by Professor Syme.