The Oxford Book of Food Plants

First edition, first impression.  x, 206pp, with full page colour botanical illustrations on almost every other page.  Orange cloth-covered boards with brown lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth is rubbed and rounded at spine ends and a little dull.  Traces of dustiness to upper text block edge.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original glossy, illustrated dust jacket, not price clipped. a little shelf worn, bumped on extreme edges and a little sunned over the spine.  

A description of the plants used to produce human food, with 420 different varieties illustrated, and notes on their origin, botany, nutritional value and culinary uses; chapters covering domestication of food plants and their geographical distribution naturally and now.