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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older books in good condition. Pages in good condition. 3 Volumes in remarkable condition for age. 1944 1946 1941 editions. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> IT is generally considered a rash experiment to publish a second series of a book of which the first series was so far complete in itself. The author who does so is often considered to be presuming upon the kindness and the long-suffering of the public or he is riding a hobby to death. The public sometimes resent this proceeding and decline a second helping from the same dish. The present Author has fond hopes that a large number if not all of those who so rapidly caused the exhaustion of the first edition of the previous volume will feel how apposite to their case is the quotation we have already made from John Burroughs the American writer on nature. We will repeat what we stated in the Preface to the First Series that there are about seventeen hundred ?owering plants and ferns indigenous to the British Isles of which only four hundred could be dealt-with in the First Series. It does not appear to us unreasonable to suppose that many ramblers who carry the First Series in their right-hand jacket-pocket will be glad to have a volume of similar size and purpose to put in the left-hand pocket and so preserve the equilibrium. (MP)