DYKES, William Rickatson. - Notes on Tulip species... Edited - Lot 37

DYKES, William Rickatson. - Notes on Tulip species... Edited and illustrated by E. Katherine Dykes, with an introduction by Sir A. Daniel Hall.- London, Herbert Jenkins limited, 1930. 108 pp. folio, 54 color plates, green percaline, in printed dust jacket. (Publisher's binding). First edition illustrated with 54 beautiful color plates showing the most beautiful varieties of tulips. Published by William Rickatson Dykes (1877-1826), a distinguished member of the Royal Horticultural Society, this is one of the finest monographs on tulips published in the twentieth century. It is illustrated with 54 beautiful color plates drawn from life by Katherine Dykes. A good copy of this rare work. (Plesch, Mille et un livres botaniques, p. 216).