The Art Album of New Zealand Flora - Being a Systematic and Popular Description of the Native Flowering Plants of New Zealand and the Adjacent Islands Volume I

Bock & Cousins / Truber & Co, Wellington & London, 1889. Brown leather with ornate gilt titles and illustration on front. Spine has been repaired with original spine laid over. Marbled e/p's with red cloth gutters. Stated Authors' Edition with list of subscribers at rear. 174pp. Missing from this volume are pages 115/116, frontispiece and plates 27 & 28. Rest of contents and illustrations in good condition for age. Illustrations by Sarah Ann Featon (née Porter, 1848-1927), and text by her husband, Edward Henry Featon (1840-1909). The album was the first full-colour art book to be published in New Zealand (Sampson). This is a heavy book so please check postage with bookseller.