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1883021951London: John Murray 1883. Third edition. Very well illustrated with many engravings large thick octavo pp xxiv 548 the final index page is foxed occasional light foxing here and there otherwise clean and sound internally very tight and firm original brown cloth with just slight suggestions of use the spine head very slightly frayed. Third edition. Cloth. Very Good. John Murray Hardcover
1878018020London: John Murray 1878. Second edition revised. Very well illustrated with many engravings large thick octavo ppxxiv 548 the frontispiece title page and index pages a little foxed occasional light foxing here and there otherwise very clean and sound internally very tight and firm original blue cloth slightly worn and scuffed faded slightly marked here and there a few very small bubbles to the cloth the spine head with slight tears. Second edition. Cloth. Good. John Murray Hardcover
1826016704Thames Street London: C. Andrews 1826. Volumes II and III only small 12mo pp vi 185; vi ii 203 uncut very clean and tight internally original boards with paper labels slightly worn and creased one board with a slightly crushed corner. From the library of Norman Douglas Simpson with his executors label on the front endpapers. Funereal flowers shrubs and small trees flowers and plants of the fields etc. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. C. Andrews Hardcover
1676021155The Sign of the Temple near the Inner Temple Gate: George Marriott 1676. "Second impression corrected with many additions". Tall quarto a title page printed in red and black illustrated with eight engraved plates of parterres a little waterstaining to the lower margins and old neat paper repairs three attractive engraved headpeices to each of the three sections pp 20 232 8 a little age-toniong and occasional light staining throughout without the engraved title page but with the preliminary leaf "The Mind of the Front" which is frequently lacking on the verso of the preliminary leaf is a signature "Henry Bates 1746" and also some earlier neat script practices contemporary full calf a little worn rubbed and cracked but still very firm. Blanche Henrey 326. "The most important Englsh treatise on gardening to be published during the second half of the seventeenth century". Rea or Rhea seems to have been a highly respected gardener and when the first edition was ;published in 1665 stated "Fourty years ar now compleated since first I began to be a planter". Second edition. Full Leather. Good. George Marriott Hardcover
1947015681Cambridge at the University Press 1947. Octavo pp x 379 slight foxing to the fore-edge a neat contemporary signature on the front endpaper otherwise very clean and sound internally blue cloth in very good condition. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Cambridge at the University Press Hardcover
1728015566The Cross-Keys between temple Gates Fleet Street: Bernard Lintot 1728. Third edition. An engraved portrait frontispiece four engraved allegorical plates one folding engraved garden plan small octavo pp liii i 200 8 a two-page publisher's list the frontispiece is a little marked in the inner margin possibly from sellotape residue and both this and the title page are a bit age-toned the verso of the frontispiece has some late Victorian inscriptions otherwise the contents are quite clean bound in fairly recent boards with a paper spine label the upper boards a little marked. Blanche Henrey 1255 devoting a page of text and three illustrations to it - "long remained popular and quotations from it are to be found in many 17th and 18th century books on English gardening". This third English editiuon is the only one to include the extra plate. It was originally published in France in 1665. The translator was Subdean of Lincoln Cathedral and Switzer describes him as "a great lover of gardening". Boards. Good. Bernard Lintot Hardcover
1917020877Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1917. Illustrated including two large folding plans in front and rear pockets pp xlvi 196 a signature on the front endpaper of the American landscape gardener Edith V Cochran. otherwise clean internally cloth-backed boardsds slightly worn and marked. . First Edition thus. Cloth-backed boards. Good. Houghton Mifflin Company Hardcover
1808020196St James's Street Fleet Street & Poultry London: J. Harding; J. White & J. Mawman 1808. Second edition. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of the Woburn Beech seven other plates of which three are tinted and folding octavo pp 4 6-277 an advertisement page extremely clean internally recently bound in green quarter morocco and marbled boards. A very smart copy. Pontey was a Yorkshire nurseryman and planter and tree-pruner to the Duke of Beford. Second edition. Quarter leather. Very Good. J. Harding; J. White & J. Mawman Hardcover
1735020847Autrecht: Etienne Neaulme 1735. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece 17 charming engraved plates a vignette title page printed in red and black 12mo pp xviii 214 a little age-toned and a few blemished internall;y but otherwise in good condition contemporary panelled sprinkled calf sympathetically re-backed with a recent spine. A multi-volume work of which this is devoted to various garden plants and garden plans. An attractive copy with the armorial bookplate of Lord Viscount Montague. Full Leather. Very Good. Etienne Neaulme Hardcover
1824018396London & Edinburgh: E. Lloyd & Son; Archibald Constable & Co. 1824. The title continues. to which are added the most approved methods of cultivating bulbous and other plants as practised by the most celebrated florists of England Holland and France. Two volumes octavo pp lii 354; xii 484 slight age-toning otherwise very clean internally contemporary half-leather and marbled boards rubbed in the first volume the spine has been damaged and neatly re-laid however the upper cover complete with endpapers and title page is nearly detached. First Edition. Half-Leather. Good. E. Lloyd & Son; Archibald Constable & Co. Hardcover
017330London: Baldwin & Craddock 1831 - 1836. A complete set of five volumes. Illustrated with 10 hand coloured plates 7 black and white plates of which three are folding various text illustrations some full page some offsetting of text on to plates some browning and ageing throughout one weak internal hinge in the fifth volume otherwise all firm and tight. Volumes 1 - 3 bound in half calf and marbled boards rubbed joints slightly weak with the book label of Joseph Alexander Walton; Volumes 4 and 5 in original ribbed cloth with rubbed paper labels a little fraying of the spines bookplate of Thomas Bowyer Bower. A scarce complete set. Paxton was an English gardener architect engineer and Member of Parliament best known for designing the Crystal Palace and for cultivating the Cavendish banana the most consumed banana in the Western world. He was appointed head gardener at Chatsworth at the age of twenty and created an important range of glasshouses and frames when the use of such things was in its infancy. First Edition. Mixed bindings. Good. Baldwin & Craddock Paperback
1904022307London: Methuen & Co 1904. Folio. Title page extra pictorial title page pp 10 612 16 edges untrimmed the outer margins of a few early pages slightly damaged by silverfish very occasional light foxing one or two inner joints slightly cracked but no weakness the front jpint cracked and a little weak otherwise overall very clean internally; original cloth-backed boards the spine very worn the paper label partly missing the upper joint a little split. One of the most delightful early gardening works as easy to read now as when it was originally written. Cloth-backed boards. Fair. Methuen & Co Hardcover
1823019868101 Strand London: J. Diggens for R. Ackermann 1823. First edition. Illustrated with 26 fine hand coloured plates of 27 - lacking one plate and a tinted aquatint plan with overlay slip large octavo pp 110 ii with the half-title a little age-toning and occasional light marking the half-title frontispiece and title page have light and faint crease page 69/70 has a paper fault crease to the margin which has left a faint imprint on the surrounding pages otherwise this is clean and sound internally half calf and marbled boards lightly rubbed. From the library of Alan Roger of Dundonnell House and Garden with his signature on the front endpaper. The missing plate is "A Picturesque Dairy". One of the most charming of estate improvement books of this period. First Edition. Half-Leather. Good. J. Diggens for R. Ackermann Hardcover
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