Description and condition: Flexible card covers, dustcover, 8vo, 144pp, index, colour illustrations. As new, looks unread.
Contents: With photographs by Bob Gibbons and Gareth Lovett Jones. “The book focuses exclusively on the flowers of spring and includes over 50 wild species from England, Scotland and Wales, many of them in considerable detail. Organised thematically, it has sections on woodland flowers, primroses and the spring flowers of lanes and fields. As well as describing the plants, it gives an account of the role of spring flowers in social life, arts, custom and landscape.” |