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8 volumes : 26 cm
Vol. 1 has half title: Lowe's British and exotic ferns
Plates by Benjamin Fawcett after A.F. Lydon. Cf. Nissen, C. Die botanische Buchillustration, 1243
Edition statement from half title of v. 1
London : Groombridge and Sons, 1856-1860
Vol. 1: [4], x, 160 p., L leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 162 p., LXVI leaves of plates; v. 3: [4], 142 p., L leaves of plates; v. 4: [4], 174 p., LXIV leaves of plates; v. 5: [4], 168 p., LVI leaves of plates; v. 6: [4], 136, [2] p., L leaves of plates; v. 7: [4], 181, [1] p., LXVI leaves of plates; v. 8: [4], 261, [1] p., LXXVII leaves of plates
All plates protected by guard sheets, except those serving as frontispieces
Error in numbering: v. 5, plate XII numbered XIII
Each vol. has an index
V. 1. Containing gymnogramma, nothochlaena, niphobolus, polypodium, in part -- v. 2. Containing polypodium, in conclusion, struthiopteris, nevrodium, hymenolepis, vittaria, ceratopteris -- v. 3. Containing adiantum, onychium, platyloma, allosorus, dorypteris, pteris, in part -- v. 4. Containing pteris, in conclusion, hypolepis, cheilanthes, doodia, blechnum, woodwardia, stenochlaena, brainea, lomaria
V. 5. Containing asplenium, diplazium, hemidictyum, ceterach, scolopendrium -- v. 6. Containing onoclea, fadyenia, cyclopeltis, didymochlaena, aspidium, in part -- v. 7. Containing aspidium, in conclusion, olfersia, hypoderris, hymenodium, mesochlaena, acrostichum, oleandra, polybotrya, nephrolepis, platycerium, woodsia, ophioglossum, cystopteris, botrychium, hemionitis