Travels in China - A Plantsman's Paradise by Lancaster, Roy - 1989

Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1989. First reprint, same year as first edition. Very well illustrated, thick quarto, pp 516, fore-edge and top edge a little marked, otherwise clean internally, a small corner torn from the front endpaper and the first four pages (see illustrations), green cloth very slightly marked, lower corners lightly bruised, binding leaning slghtly, the dustwrapper is a bit worn stretched and marked. A heavy book - extra postage may be required. [This book successfully combines a most enjoyable and detailed account of the well-known author's many journeys through China. Roy Lancaster follows in the footsteps of the great Victorian plant hunters and describes, in this, his magnum opus, some 1,000 different plants in their natural habitat. This is a book about plants from a country so rich in variety that there are 50 percent more species on one mountain in China than in the whole of the British Isles. Indeed, the wide range of climatic conditions in a country as vast as China makes this book relevant to gardeners everywhere.] . Cloth. Good/A little worn and stretched.