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Our Garden Friends and Foes
1864réf. 105985London: Routledge Warne & Routledge. 1864. Octavo original red cloth boards with gilt-stamped decoration and lettering upper board and spine blind-stamped dcoration boards eight b&w plates plate V is the frontis numerous b&w text illustrations pp viii 438 including index plus plate section at rear. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. The plates are foxed: the main body of the book is clean. The book has been professionally restored with the gilt-illustrated backstrip laid down on new red cloth. Very good condition. John George Wood or Reverend J. G. Wood 1827 - 1889 was an English writer who gave up his curacy to devote himself to writing on natural history becoming a well-known parson-naturalist of the Victorian era. This is a first edition of "Our Garden Friends and Foes" in which Wood writes: "The object of this work is to furnish the reader with a guide to the various beings which can exercise any influence upon our gardens and greenhouses to enable the cultivator to distinguish between his Friends and his Foe and to give simple directions for encouraging the one and exterminating the other." The book is beautiully illustrated with over 200 engraved illustrations of garden animals birds lizards and snakes beetles butterflies and moths spiders insects etc. 1st Edition. Routledge, Warne, & Routledge hardcover
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