(Botany.) Robert Thornton: 'The Temple of Flora', London, Th...

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(Botany.) Robert Thornton: 'The Temple of Flora', London, The Folio Society, 2008, limited edition, number 220 of 600 copies only, elephant folio volume with 43 plates (of which 34 coloured) as called for, 232pp, elephant folio (57 x 47cm), original quarter green Nigerian goatskin, gilt titled to spine, striking pictorial cloth gilt front cover, together with the commentary volume by Stephen Harris, 117pp, 4to (30 x 21.5cm), original green buckram, printed paper title label to front cover, plus certificate and two letters from The Folio Society re publication of The Temple of Flora and the decision to lower the limitation of the production "Of the original printing of 1,980, only 600 copies will be published as bound books; the remainder will be issued as sets of floral plates later this year, and will not bear a limitation number. For buyers of the bound Temple of Flora, the effect of this decision will be to increase the rarity of the publication...", all housed together as issued in the original green buckram gilt solander box, Nigerian goatskin gilt title label to spine