MOORE, THOMAS. The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland ... Edited by John Lindley ... Nature-Printed by Henry Bradbury. 51 nature-printed plates, all printed in colors, by Bradbury & Evans under the direction of Henry Bradbury, tissue guards throughout. Folio, 21 1/2x14 1/2 inches, contemporary 1/2 green morocco over green cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, the bands flanked by gilt fillets, lettered in the second and fifth compartments, yellow glazed endpapers, gilt edges; minor foxing, as usual. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1855 [-56]
The folio first edition of Bradbury's masterpiece: one of the greatest of all nature-printed works. BM(NH) III,p.1345; Cave & Wakeman 25; Fischer 89; Hofer Bequest 74n; Nissen BBI 1400; Stafleu & Cowan 6275.
