Consists of 44 leaves, each with a description and picture of a particular plant

Each leaf is, in effect, a miniature poster, with publication and price information printed at the bottom

Cover title: Poisonous plants

Illustrations in full-color chromolithography, probably by W. Dickes and Co., using the Baxter process

"Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge."

This work is not dated. Two editions of it are known to have been published, in 1857 and 1866, with the 1866 edition lacking the initial "The" in the title. The 1857 edition has the following physical description: xii, 208 p., [44] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 16 cm. Cf. NUC pre-56. The exact relationship between the two publications cannot be determined

NUC pre-1956, 469:318