1855, Moore, Popular history of British ferns and the allied plants.

Condition : good, a few small scattered stains, lacking the frontispiece (the first plate). A fine copy.
Illustrations : 21 (of 22) coloured plates.
Binding : 20th century full leather.
Volume : 1 volume.
Format : In-8.
Pages : 24, XII, 379 pp.
Publisher : London, Lovell Reeve.
Date : 1855.

Thomas Moore (1821 - 1887) was a British gardener and botanist.
He was editor of the Gardeners' Magazine of Botany from 1850 to 1851, the Garden Companion and Florists' Guide in 1852, the Floral Magazine in 1860 and 1861, the Gardeners' Chronicle from 1866 to 1882, the Florist and Pomologist from 1868 to 1874, and the Orchid Album from 1881 to 1887. He made a particular study of ferns, most of his independent work being devoted to this group of plants. But he also acquired a knowledge of garden plants and florists' flowers in general which was probably superior to that of any of his contemporaries. He was one of the secretaries of the International Floral Exhibition of 1866, and was for many years secretary of the floral committee and floral director of the Royal Horticultural Society.