Concise notices of the indigenous grasses of Ireland : best suited for agriculture, with dried specimens of each kind / by David Moore, A.L.S., &c., &c., &c., curator of the Royal Dublin Society's Botanic Garden, Glasnevin.

Woodcut bookplate(?) on recto of first free rear end-paper, bearing a figure of an auctioneer(?) above a sailboat; "6/" inscribed in an early hand on printed title label on upper board; manuscript additions and corrections in ink on several labels throughout; "1/-" inscribed in pencil on recto of first front free end-paper; bookseller's description, by Forest Books, Normanton-on-Cliffe, Grantham, Lincolnshire, available in MSS 466, Box 4, Folder 246.

MSU: Some speciments are out of order (e.g., number 48 is between numbers 3 and 4, along with a couple of similar instances).

MSU: Bookseller's description: "There is no formal imprint, though Glasnevin is sometimes taken from Moore's statement that he is Curator of the Royal Dublin Society's Botantic Garden, Glasnevin, and the work must have been self publisher".

In contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards; publisher's green printed title label on upper board ("Dried specimens of the agricultural grasses of Ireland, by D. Moore"); remnant of one (of two) cloth ties attached to fore-edge of rear board.