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BROOKE, Jocelyn.

The Wild Orchids of Britain.

Drawings from the living plants by Gavin Bone. Additional drawings by Muirhead and Stephen Bone.

Publisher: London: The Bodley Head, 1950

Stock code: 63579

Price: £2,500 Currency Conversion

First edition, first impression. One of 40 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator out of a total limited edition of 1,140 copies. With an album of 40 corrected proof pulls for the published book.

Tall octavo. Original japon, titles to spine and upper board gilt, top edge gilt. With the dust jacket. 40 colour plates, 40 extra unbound proof pulls. Very lightly rubbed at extremities. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed and toned jacket with frayed edges.

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