Anne Pratt (1806-93), author of Common Things of the Sea-side and Our Native Songsters, illustrated all of her own work, and in the spirit of the Victorian Naturalists, successfully merged the study of botany with romantic flower-lore. Wild Flowers is Miss Pratt's first botanical study. In 1855 she produced The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain, for which she is most well known. (Blunt).
The collection of Wild Flower plates at Lyons Ltd. is from a volume printed just one year before Miss Pratt's death in 1893.
