London: John Van Voorst, 1861. Second edition. Hardcover. iv, 76, followed by the hand-coloured plates. Contents clean and fresh: dog-ear crease to one page corner, and an inch torn from margin of p8/9, losing no text. Tanning to pp11/12 where a newspaper cutting was laid in. Lightly-pencilled ownership name to..... More
Munich / Munchen: J. Lindauersche Buchhandlung, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. xvi, 271pp + [1] advert. German text. Delicately patterned endpapers, with elegant Latin bookplate. Light foxing to back of endpapers and the facing page. Slight tanning to pages, contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Marbled edges to textblock. 19 x 12.5..... More
London: W.H. & L. Collingridge, 'Amateur Gardening' Office, n.d. [c.1904]. Third edition. Hardcover. 94 + [10] adverts, with illustrations in the text. Contents clean and in good order, with creases to some corners. 8vo, in the original orange boards printed in black and red with green cloth spine. Slight soiling..... More
London: W.H. & L. Collingridge, 'Amateur Gardening' Office, n.d. [1917]. Reprint. 108pp, with many illustrations in the text and a photo frontis: the last 4 pages are advertisements. First issued in 1913 as 'School Gardening: A simple book for teaching boys and girls in elementary schools the rudiments of practical..... More
London: Cassell, 1920. Reprint. Hardcover. viii, 152, [ii] adverts: illustrated with photographs and drawings, and with rear advertisement thin card cover bound in. Title page very stained, subsequent few pages decreasingly affected. Occasional minor soiling. Original front thin card cover missing. In a new quarter binding of green cloth with..... More
St Austell, Cornwall: Eden Friends, 2001, 2002, 2003. Paperback. Each issue c36-50pp, with many thoughtful articles illustrated in colour. Quarto, with stapled matt pages in pictorial matt card covers. In fresh, near-fine condition, with tiny scuffs or knocks to cover extremities. [EXTRA Heavy Item]. More
