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8.5 x 5.5 x 1 Copyright 1828 Foxing as seen in photo Original 1828 Volume II of Sir James Edward Smith’s The English Flora, Second Edition, published in London by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. An authentic nearly 200-year-old English botanical book by one of Britain’s important early botanists. Smith was founder and first president of the Linnean Society of London and the owner of Carl Linnaeus’s celebrated botanical collections. Beautiful 19th-century half-leather binding with marbled boards, gilt spine decoration and red leather title label reading “Smith’s English Flora.” Volume II of a four-volume work.