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Edited by Geoffrey Grigson. London: Collins, 1951. Folio, original quarter cloth, pastedown labels to spine and upper board, dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with full-page color reproductions of Thornton's celebrated botanical prints. Some light wear to edges of jacket; a few brown spots to endpapers. Together with Parts I and II. By Wilfrid Blunt and James Russell. London: George Rainbird, 1955 and 1957. 2 vols. Folio, plain thick folders with pastedown gilt-stamped labels to upper boards, dust jackets. Illustrated throughout with full-page color reproductions. Prospectus laid into Part I. Some loss to edges of dust jackets.


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