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1913017254Langport: Kelway 1913. Very well illustrated with many colour plates and hundreds of black and white images all from photographs quarto pp 4 352 rear hinge cracking front hinge weak and with the preliminary pages becoming loose fore-edge foxed otherwise clean internally ornate pictorial boards a little worn age-toned and marked cloth spine. RARE. One of the most lavish of nursery catalogues. This volume was dedicated to Gertrude Jekyll and contains a short printed preface by her. James Kelway was born in 1815 and became a gardener like his father William. At the age of 18 James was appointed as Head Gardener on the Dillington estate near Ilminster which was being revamped by its new owner James Lee Lee. Over the next 17 years James learned not only how to manage a large garden but also took advantage of the walled gardens and large greenhouses to develop his love of hybridising new varieties of plants. When he moved to Langport in 1851 he was already an experienced horticulturist. He started with a piece of land of less than two acres but over the next fifty years he built up a nursery business with over 200 acres of its own and many more leased from local farmers. He established Kelways with a world wide reputation for both vegetables and flowers. His first love was the gladiolus but he also worked on other herbaceous plants such as delphiniums pyrethrums and of course peonies which were to become Kelways flagship product. His son William and grandson James continued his work into the 20th century and although the business was hard hit by the two world wars it has survived and thrived to this day. Kelways issued their most impressive catalogues called Manuals of Horticulture between the 1890s and the outbreak of the First World War. These were like modern-day gardening encyclopedias full of horticultural advice articles from gardening publications photographs and of course their seeds and plants for sale. They were lavishly illustrated and took advantage of the emerging science of photography as much as they could. Cloth-backed boards. Fair. Kelway Hardcover
Index. 32 illustrations. Light shelfwear.
1794021678Fleet Street: B. & J. White 1794. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece small thick quarto pp xxxviii 435 with the blindstamp of The Faversham Institute on the title page an ink name and address on the verso of the frontispiece has been cross-hatched out with the result thet the marking shows through to the plate the title page is a little age-toned the dedication leaf a little toned from an early insertion of a piece of paper otherwise this a remarkably clean and wide-margined copy bound in a recent full calf which has just slight signs of use. RARE. The subscribers' list accounts for just sixty copies. First English edition. Full Leather. Very Good. B. & J. White Hardcover
8vo [25 x 16 cm]; lxiv, 695 pp, engraved portrait of Ellman, engraved illus, 10 hand colored engraved illustrations of grasses, tables, index. original half calf and boards with new cloth spine and title lettering on paper spine label, covers worn, marbled edges, light stain title and frontis margin, interior is clean, mostly unfoxed and near fine in good cover. A picture of this book is availab A survey of the main topics that a farmer of the day would need to have reference material on including botany, fruit growing, vegetable and flower growing, cattle, dairy, game, bee keeping, draining, horses, grasses, field crops, trees, poultry, hops, wine making, etc, arranged alphabetically, with detailed appendices.
1840018902London & Edinburgh: Printed for the Editor and sold by Longman & Co and A. & C. Black 1840. With an engraved portrait frontispiece many line illustrations throughout the text octavo pp xxxii619 slightly age-toned and with the very occasional mark the frontispiece is foxed and its verso rather marked the endpapers foxed the title page slightly browned otherwise firm and tight internally black half calf and marbled boards rubbed and a little worn but no weakness. . New Edition. Half-Leather. Good. Printed for the Editor, and sold by Longman & Co, and A. & C. Black Hardcover
1333488084.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
First edition, 4to, xii, 215, [1]pp., with half-title, 42 hand-coloured lithographed plates, marbled endpapers, green half crushed morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, spine tooled with floral decorations within raised bands, corners lightly rubbed otherwise a fine copy. An exceptionally clean copy of this work by one of the most popular and successful female botanical illustrators. Provenance: Bookplate of Mrs. L. Bartlett to front paste-down. Nissen BBI 1236.
1850022864Amen Corner Paternoster Row London: William S. Orr & Co. 1850. Second edition not dated - 1850 is sometimes suggested. Quarto pp x 270 with 58 superb hand-coloured plates one plate with a very small mark very occasional very minor marks to the text but otherwise extremely clean intermally original green cloth blind-stamped and decorated in gilt very slightly marked the spine a little faded slight splitting to both joints towards the top recased with new endpapers. One of the most desirable of this series and extremely uncommon with the cloth binding preserved. The Lindley Library copy of the second edition has a different publisher. Interestingly Noel Humphreys' obituary in The Garden vol. 18 1881 p. xii names Humphreys as the artist for the Ladies' fFower-garden series. Second edition. Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Noel Humphreys. William S. Orr & Co., Hardcover
Numerous illustrations and photographs in black and white. Paginated iv, 236:442, civi, xii. Title page loose. Small tear at base of spine; wear to top/tail of spine; spine and covers browned in places. Small chips and tears. Page edges greyed with dust marks. Some foxing to page edges.
Numerous illustrations and photographs in black and white. Paginated 314-512, xciv-clxxxiv, 64. Heavily worn spine with loss of top half. Front cover worn and marked, foxed. Back cover loose. Foxing to page edges and occasional in the text.
5 vols., 8vo., with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; original cloth (red/red/red/red/black), gilt backs, a near fine set in dustwrapper. Lovely set of a standard reference; first published 1955-1978.
Deux volumes reliures demi-basane. 544 + 608 pages. 20x26cm. Manques aux couvertures. Mouillures en marges.
Mm 200x255 Opera in otto volumi (1880 circa) con numerosissime illustrazioni, legatura editoriale in tela verde con scritte e decorazioni in oro e nero ai piatti e ai dorsi, dorature ai tagli. L'opera è in buone condizioni, e mostra segni d'uso normali (angoli e cuffie lise) con l'eccezione del primo volume il cui dorso è parzialmente distaccato.
582p. + Frontis and seventeen full page engraved and lithographed plates of fruits, flowers, architecture and portraits. Numerous wood engraved text illustrations. Decorative title page. Text ruled in black. Age stained and foxed. Slight damp staining. Inked and penciled ownership of Z. P. Wesley, York, PA, 1914. 8vo. Original half leather binding. Spine decorated and lettered in gold. Raised bands. Hardbound. Nice condition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PLANTS W130
1914022651London: J. & A. Churchill 1914. Many coloured and half-tone photographic plates large thick quarto pp xvi 500 top edge gilt the endpapers rather age-toned original brown lightly decorated buckram dull and slightly worn. As usual the plates are slightly dusty internally and a little waved. From the library of the botanist and garden historian Anthony Huxley with his stamp on the front endpaper. A good association copy as Huxley was an RHS council member for many years. VERY SCARCE. A record of the first flower show to be held on the Chelsea site. Although owing its inception to the Royal Horticultural Society it was actually organized by a small private company. The work was published at Cory's expense. First Edition. Cloth. Good. J. & A. Churchill 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
255 pages. Abundantly illustrated, oftern in colour. "Records both the extraordinary development of so many types of rose and the growth in the significance of roses." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Worthy reference copy. Book
302p. Illustrated with drawings. Damp staining. 4to. Original printed wraps. Paperback. PLANTS W131
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 50 photographs, illustrations and diagrams in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, blue endpapers, backstrip mildly age-faded (but all gilt bright and clear), a very good, clean copy. With 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Published in the Country Life Library.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with faint creasing and very slight fading to spine. 160pp. Studies of a selection of our most colourful and well-loved wild flowers, with reference in the text to related species, with fifty illustrated in full-page colour photographs.
Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 252 pages
8vo., First Edition, with 50 fine coloured plates (one mounted) and numerous monochrome photographs in the text; comb-bound inside blue cloth case, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, backstrip lightly sunned else a near fine copy. The catalogue lists 181 lots with index of artists.
4to., First Edition, with numerous fine coloured photographs throughout, inscription on half-title; blue cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
A few spots on front/back covers and page edges, slight wear to top/tail of spine.
