Lot 375

[SPECIMEN ALBUM - BRITISH MOSSES]. [PERRY, A. R. (1938-2014...

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[SPECIMEN ALBUM - BRITISH MOSSES]. [PERRY, A. R. (1938-2014), his copy]. BENSON, R. Species Book Illustrative of the Principal Genera of British Mosses. Shrewsbury, 1897. 4to. Approximately 129 samples on 50 leaves with manuscript captions; manuscript title on two laid-in ruled leaves. Near contemporary full blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt (?British Mosses?). (Binding worn, soiled, hinges cracked, occasional thumbsoiling in text). Provenance: A. R. (?Roy?) Perry with his ink ownership stamp on the front free endpaper. Perry was a dedicated and knowledgeable naturalist and botanist and was the ?Recorder of Mosses? in 1966 for the British Bryological Society; his ownership of this book may have been from roughly that time.