A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi with Especial Reference to the Esculent and Economic Species -
M.C. Cooke
1898 - W. H. Allen and Co., London - Sixth Edition, Revised
An informative Victorian-era reference to British fungi, wonderfully illustrated with 20 full page colour plates of thirty-four species and numerous woodcuts throughout the text.
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914) was an English botanist and mycologist. From 1872 to 1894, he edited Grevillea, a monthly periodical devoted to the study of mushrooms.
The word ‘esculent’ means ‘edible’. Provenance: from the library of Alwyn Ronald Macfarlane-Grieve, of Toft Manor, Cambridge, with his armourial bookplate to front pastedown and gift inscription from his father, dated 1903, to endpaper. A lieutenant of the 1st/8th infantry Battalion of Argyll and Sutherland Highlander, he was killed in France in 1917, aged 28.
References: Taylor, New Scientist 1988. Coldstream & District Local History, web.
Small 8vo. pp. viii 166 [1]. Publisher’s brown cloth decorated and lettered in black and gilt to upper cover and spine, brown endpapers. Condition: Fine Ref: 107858 Price: HK$ 700
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914) was an English botanist and mycologist. From 1872 to 1894, he edited Grevillea, a monthly periodical devoted to the study of mushrooms.
The word ‘esculent’ means ‘edible’. Provenance: from the library of Alwyn Ronald Macfarlane-Grieve, of Toft Manor, Cambridge, with his armourial bookplate to front pastedown and gift inscription from his father, dated 1903, to endpaper. A lieutenant of the 1st/8th infantry Battalion of Argyll and Sutherland Highlander, he was killed in France in 1917, aged 28.
References: Taylor, New Scientist 1988. Coldstream & District Local History, web.
Small 8vo. pp. viii 166 [1]. Publisher’s brown cloth decorated and lettered in black and gilt to upper cover and spine, brown endpapers. Condition: Fine Ref: 107858 Price: HK$ 700