hot A Plain and Easy Account of the British Fungi: With Descriptions of the Esculent and Poisonous Species, Etc. and a Tabular Arrangement of Orders and Genera, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, 1862.
Good condition first. Robert Hardwicke, London, 1862. 18mo. 148pp+6pp. Green cloth bound gold emboss on spine and front, spine cocked, boards bumped, gold bright. 24 color plates plus b&w line drawings. Some pages shaken or loose. Pencil signature on title page. Spine fragile. Very nice collectible book.
The author Mordecai Cubitt Cooke was thought to have been the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's Alice details of growing and shrinking due to Cooke's discussion of visual spatial distortion after ingesting Amanita muscaria or fly agaric. These effects were later to be termed Alice in Wonderland syndrome.
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