THE COELOMYCETES. Fungi Imperfecti with Pycnidia, Acervuli and Stromata.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original light blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout with 392 black and white diagrams, as issued. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt fresh, with light bumping to the tail of the spine. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the better than very good dustwrapper, which is lightly rubbed, nicked, and creased to the edges.

British botanist and mycologist Brian C. Sutton is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts in coelomycetes classification, 'The Coelomycetes' was considered a major advance for coelomycete identification.