1856 St. Brody FLORA Weston novelist WILKIE COLLINS named as subscriber FLOWERS

Description: PRINTS BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHS MANUSCRIPTS CURIOSITIES - RARE - NOVELIST WILKIE COLLINS LISTED AS A SUBSCRIBER -ST. BRODY (Gustavus A. Ornano, Anglo-French botanist, 1828-1901).The flora of Weston and its immediate neighbourhood : including the habitats of Brean-Down, Uphill, Hutton Wood, Worle or Weston Hill, Sand-Point, and Birnbeck Island : with critical remarks on our doubtful species, and botanical memoranda of Steep Holm, Chapwick Moor, and Cheddar Cliffs / compiled for the use of the young by Gustavus St. Brody. (Weston-super-Mare): n.p., 1856. First edition. [1, publisher's ad], viii, 174 pp. Contemporary lapis blue cloth binding, with gilt lettering and motif to upper cover and gilt lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Yellow endpapers. Size: small 8vo (19cm x 12.2cm).Very Good to Good condition. Some rubbing and wear to binding, including spine and corners. Minor marking to covers. Light age-toning to text, and a few small spots of foxing to first few leaves. Hinge just startring to show in one place between two index pages at rear, but binding as a whole is solid. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.A rare example of this flora of Weston-super-Mare, which includes none other than novelist Wilkie Collins in the list of subscribers. For more on this unlikely association, see Lovatt, C., Bulletin, Bristol Naturalists' Society. 2007. No 457. 6 – 7. 'Wilkie Collins, a subscriber to St Brody’s Flora of Weston (1856)'. In 1856, when this flora was published, Collins was collaborating with Charles Dickens on the play The Frozen Deep. key words:

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