.    (Children's Botany)ROBERTSON, H(enry).R(obert).   PLANTS WE PLAY WITH      (London): Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., (ca.   1915).          Some odd and quirky characteristics of about 20 different plants from willows to cowslips are described to young readers and suggested as occasions for entertainment. Games, amusements and objects created from the plants are illustrated including a basket made of burdock, daisy chains, a walnut shell boat, a chestnut game and a cowslip ball. Robertson based his text on plant-games he played as a child.   8vo (20 x 16 cm); color frontispiece + (viii) + 118 pp. including text sketches and 39 plates including 19 in color.            Original cloth with simple design stamped in black on upper cover and spine, pictorial inset at center of upper cover, gentle rubbing to extremities; scattered faint foxing to text. $55.00

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