> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 888](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33334027) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10101-1) LSID 10101-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5345429) QID Q5345429 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Step, Edward (1855-1931), British naturalist; popular writer on botany, entomology and conchology; employee of various publishing firms. **Abbreviated name**: *Step* \[standard form in IPNI: *Step*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 324 (b. 11 Nov 1855, d. 11 Nov 1931); BL 2: 222, 224, 720; BM 5: 2015, 8: 1244; Desmond p. 582 (d. 8 Nov 1831); KR 668-669; LS 39539-39540, 41753; Rehder 5: 823; TL-2/601, 8275; Tucker 1: 667. #### Biofile - Adkin, The Entomologist 64: 287-288. 1931 (obit.), North Western Natural. 7(1): 41-42. 1932 (obit.). - Anon., Bot. Exch. Cl. Brit. Isl. Rep. 1931: 631; Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 229: 520-523. 1964 (extensive list of books; published also under the pseudonym James Weston); J. Bot. 69: 315. 1981 (d.); Nature 128: 863. 1931 (obit. not.); Proc. S. London entom. nat. Hist. Soc. 1931: 34-35. 1932 (obit., portr.); Who's who, London 1899-1932. - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 327-328. 1980 (lists most of his popular natural history books). - Hy.J.T., Entom. Record 44: 16. 1932 (obit.). - Pugsley, H.W., J. Bot. 70: 18-19. 1932 (obit.); Proc. Linn. Soc. London 144: 189-190. 1932 (obit.). - R.F., Naturalist 1932: 15-16 (obit., portr.). ### Publications ##### n.12.981. Favourite flowers **Title** *Favourite flowers* of garden and greenhouse by Edward Step,... the cultural directions edited by William Watson,... illustrated with three hundred and sixteen coloured plates selected and arranged by D. Bois... London (Frederick Warne & Co.) and New York. 4 vols. 1896-1897. **Abbreviated title**: *Favourite fl.* **Notes** *Plates* taken from Désiré Georges Jean Marie Bois (1856-1946), *Atl. pl. Jard*. 1891-1896, 3 vols., see TL-2/601. *1*: 1896 (Bot. Zeit. 1 Mar 1897; Nat. Nov. Mar(1) 1897), frontisp., p. \[1\]-163, *pl. 1-78* (col.). *2*: 1897 (Bot. Zeit. Apr 1897; Nat. Nov. Apr(2) 1897), frontisp., p. \[i\]-x, \[165\]-323, *pl. 79-156*. *3*: 1897 (Bot. Zeit. 1837; Nat. Nov. Jul(1, 2) 1897), frontisp., p. \[i\]-x, \[325\]-495, \[496, colo.\], *pl. 157-234*. *4*: 1897 (Bot. Zeit. 16 Oct 1897), frontisp., p. \[i\]-x, \[497\]-691, \[692, colo.\], *pl. 235-312. Copies*: G, HH, MO, NY. ##### n.12.982. Wild flowers **Title** *Wild flowers* month by month in their natural haunts... London (Frederick Warne & Co.) and New York, 2 vols. 1905. Oct. **Notes** *1*: 1905 (Bot. Zeit. 7 Oct 1905; Nat. Nov. Oct(1,2) 1905), frontisp., p. \[i-vi\], \[1\]-200, *pl. 1-96*. – Also issued with date 1906. *2*: 1905 (Bot. Centralbl. 16 Jun 1906), p. \[i-vi, incl. frontisp.\], \[1\]-199, \[200, colo.\], *pl. 1-96*. *Copy*: G (vol. 1, 1906; vol. 2, 1905). ##### n.12.983. Toadstools and Mushrooms of the countryside **Title** *Toadstools and Mushrooms of the countryside* a pocket guide to the larger fungi... London (Hutchinson and Co.,...) \[19-13\]. Oct. (in fours). **Abbreviated title**: *Toadstools and Mushrooms*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1913 (Bot. Centralbl. 6 Jan 1914 (as of "1913); Nat. Nov. Nov(1) 1913), frontisp., \[*2 pl*.\], p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-143, *pl. 2-136* (of which 8 col.). *Copies*: CBS, FH, USDA. *Reissue*: New York 1914, n.v., see Hedwigia 57: (58). 1915; Nat. Nov. Feb(1, 2) 1915, London 1931, n.v., see Nat. Nov. Aug 1931. *Ref*.: Anon., J. Bot. 51: 361-362. Dec 1913 (rev.). ##### n.12.984. Herbs of healing **Title** *Herbs of healing* a book of British simples... London (Hutchinson & Co....) \[1926\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Herbs heal.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1926, p. \[i-ii\], frontisp., p. \[iii\]-xiii, 1-206, *46 pl. Copy*: USDA.