Flora of Glamorgan

First edition. H.M.S.O. London. 1994. Crown octavo. viii, 379pp. 2 double page maps to end. Illustrated in colour and monochrome. Corners creased, a little edgewear. Page edges a little soiled.

This copy from the private library of one of the authors, Quentin Kay, botanist.

QUENTIN OLIVER NEWTON KAY (1939–2017) Lecturer in Botany at University College Swansea. Widely published ecological geneticist and plant population biologist. County Recorder for the Botanical Society of the British Isles in Glamorgan. "For most of his life Quentin lived in a Gower cottage in Cwm Ivy, near Whiteford National Nature Reserve. He was an obsessive collector of secondhand books, particularly local floras, and the shelves in his cottage were stacked with volumes that would have provided most BSBI members with hours of browsing entertainment, with a complementary glass of homemade elderflower wine in hand and a Haydn quartet playing from a gramophone in the background. His garden was a botanical wonderland, complete with an eclectic assortment of plants that he had collected on overseas trips, fruit trees that always seemed to produce too much fruit, various experimental plots and Swallows that returned to the outbuildings every year"
"Quentin died on 18th December 2017. He leaves a great vacuum in Welsh botany"
Obituary Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland 2018.