The gardener's assistant : practical and scientific : a guide to the formation and management of the kitchen, fruit, and flower gardens, and the cultivation of conservatory, green-house, and hot-stoves plants : with a copious calendar of gardening
The gardener's assistant : practical and scientific : a guide to the formation and management of the kitchen, fruit, and flower gardens, and the cultivation of conservatory, green-house, and hot-stoves plants : with a copious calendar of gardening...
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1881. Blackie. Hard Cover. Book-VG, rebound, gilt titles on banded spine, black boards. 10x7. 956pp. 32 b/w & tissue-guarded colour plates, many b/w illus. An exhaustive, illustrated guide to gardening at the end of the nineteenth century, describing the principal operations which have to be performed in order to insure success in the management of a garden, together with information on how to fill it to the best advantage.
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Very Good. 4to. Hand-colored lithographis frontispiece. xv, 12 plates, 774 pp. Illustrated with 12 vibrantly hand-colored lithographic plates and in-text wood-cut. Original hand-bound in gilt stamped green leather with green cloth. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Front and rear covers detached but present, bookplates front endpapers, else very good; contents bright and unmarked.
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Very good. Half-leather cover in green with raised bands and gilt on the spine, cover shows minor wear, rubbing, staining, and joints starting. Name of former owner on the front pastedown. All edges gilt, pages are lightly tanned and clean with 12 particularly fine hand-colored plates. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
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Former owner's name abraded from pastedown; cloth rubbed at extremities. xv, 774 + 6 (ads) pp. With twelve fine hand-colored plates; text illustrations. Large 8vo,
