British Ferns and Their Allies. An Abridgement of the ‘Popular History of British Ferns,’ and Comprising the Ferns, Club-Mosses, Pepperworts, & Horsetails. Illustrated by W. S. Coleman

Author of the narrative poem Lalla Rookh, Moore was equally renowned as a poet and composer. He was also a close friend of both Percy Shelley and Lord Byron. When Byron left his memoirs to Moore, Moore conspired with the nobleman's publisher to burn the document - presumably to protect his late comrade's reputation.