MILLER'S COMMON WAYSIDE FLOWERS, 1860.

MILLER, THOMAS. Common Wayside Flowers. London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1860.

8:o (about 220x170 mm.). (4), (2), 3-185 (pp. 57-58 missing) pp. Engraved hand-coloured extra title (some foxing), illustrated with 22 handcoloured plates by Edmund Evans after Birket Foster (of 23, plate pp. 57-58 missing), some foxing).
Full decorated gilt leather boards, a little worn, richly gilt spine, all edges gilt (label of bookbinder Bone & Son, London, on inside of lower board).

First edition of this scarce book with illustrations by Edmund Evans (after Myles Birket Foster), English watercolourist .

Provenance: Olle Wallin (1934-2021), economist who began his professional career working for the Swedish commercial bank Svenska Handelsbanken, after which he was employed by the construction company Beijers, working under Anders Wall.
His interest in books and nature was inspired by his parents, both avid book collectors and interested in natural history. Wallin began collecting seriously after moving to Stockholm in the 1970's, and frequently visited the many antiquarian book shops as well as attended the auctions. His line of work also required extensive travel, foremost to the European continent and the US, and he usually took the opportunity to combine the business trips with visits to leading antiquarian book sellers and auction houses. Many of the more important and valuable works in his collection were acquired on those occasions.