12mo. 143, [1], 7pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, two further plates, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, and four final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's dark green decorated cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Occasional spoting, booksellers ticket of W. Barwick of Lancaster to FEP.

A revised, early Victorian edition of an anonymous botany primer, intended for a juvenile readership, first published in 1833 'under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge'.

All editions are scarce, with this third being no exception; OCLC records copies at two locations (Trinity College Dublin and UCL), COPAC adds no further.