3 Free eBooks – June 2016

My pick for the ‘3 Free eBooks’ post for this month is a 4 volume set:

Pratt, Anne (revised by Edward Strep). The flowering plants, grasses, sedges, & ferns of Great Britain and their allies, the club mosses, horsetails, etc. London: Frederick Warne & Co. 1905. Available from the Internet Archive: volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4.

Note that these books were published (originally in the 1870s) by the same company that published Beatrix Potter’s books a generation later.

This 1905 was an edition published after Pratt’s death in 1893. I enjoyed the illustrations in all 4 volumes and am in the process of looking at other books on the Internet Archive by Anne Pratt. According to Wikipedia she was ‘one of the best known English botanical illustrators of the Victorian age.’ I’ve clipped a few examples to include in this post.