MOORE, Thomas. A Popular History of the British Ferns and the Allied Plants, comprising the clubmosses, pepperworts, and horsetails. First edition. 354, [2], 8pp adverts., 20 coloured plates. A very good copy in original blind and gilt stamped cloth. Bookseller’s small corner label of Varty & Owen, on the inner front board. 8vo. Reeve and Benham. 1851. ~ Dedicated to N.B. Ward “whose invention of close glazed cases has extended the cultivation of ferns to the parlour, the window-sill, and the city court-yard...” “Among the works which a taste for the study of ferns has produced this stands at the head beyond all comparison.” The Gardener’s Chronicle, review in 1851.