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Anna Maria Hussey's text, accompanying the plates which were in several instances executed after her own drawings, combines "scientific description with information from history, literature, and folklore, and also contain advice on cooking fungi together with personal observations and anecdotes, all written in a lively and amusing style... Reviewers praised the beauty, detail, and accuracy of Illustrations of British Mycology, though the work's cost, and quarto size, made it an impractical companion for field work" (ODNB). A second series was published in 1855, two years after Hussey's death.
Provenance: William Orme Foster (1814-1899), Apley Park bookplate. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868; by descent to the present owner.

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