Concise Flora Britannica - Tapa dura

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 271 pages; 271p : colour illus ; 25 cm. Illustrated throughout in colour, this is a concise edition of Flora Britannica. It is organised thematically, rather than botanically and includes the personal anecdotes, observations and regional knowledge of people from all over Britain.Review: The Flora Britannica project was launched in the winter of 1991-92 with the aim of finding out if plants still had a place in British lives; appeals went out on TV and radio, through schools and community groups, for information about the modern meaning of our flora and the replies came flooding in. Four years later the epic Flora Britannica was published - a unique nationwide record of the popular culture of plants in Britain, and this is the concise edition. Arranged thematically rather than botanically - 'Plants as resources', 'Games and rituals' for example - it is highly illustrated, and at a trimmed down 272 pages, slightly more portable than its big sister. An absolute delight.