Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms: A Selection of Thirty Native Food Varieties, Easily Recognizable by Their Marked Individualities, with Simple Rul

William Hamilton Gibson’s beautifully illustrated 1895 work is an early guide to common edible mushrooms. The book contains over eighty illustrations. Gibson was an American painter and naturalist whose interest in flowers and insects led him, eventually, to edible mushrooms.