Quarto. 259pp, [1]. With half-title, a chromolithograph frontispiece, 40 further illustrated plates, of which some chromolithograph, some engraved, and some photographic, and one engraved map. Uncut in original publisher's gilt-tooled green cloth boards, pictorial paper label pasted to upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked, with bumping to head and foot of spine. Internally clean and crisp.

The first book on peonies, preceding Peonies in the Little Garden (1923), by American horticulturalist Alice Harding (1871-1938), who established and tended the gardens at Burnley Farm in Plainfield, New Jersey.