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réf. 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
1983255 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
1992302p. Illustrated with drawings. Damp staining. 4to. Original printed wraps. Paperback. PLANTS W131
19138vo., 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.
1980No 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.
1993Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 252 pages
19538vo., 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.
19878vo., 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.
19894to., 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.
1897réf. TK0352London:: Office Journal of Horticulture 1897-98. 1897. 2 annuals bound in 1 volume. 4to. 478; xi 1 514 pp. 52 large chromolithographic plates. Original half dark green morocco green cloth; rubbed. Very good. The beautiful and large chromolithographic plates that embellished these 2-years of issues are especially attractive. / Dedicated to the Rev. George Herbert Engleheart raiser of beautiful narcissi being the fifty-first volume of "The Garden". With the next issue dedicated to John Gilbert Baker of the Herbarium Royal Gardens Kew. / Reverend George Herbert Engleheart 1851-1936 achieved national prominence as one of the greatest ever breeders of daffodils Narcissus but as a 'highly cultured man well read and appreciative of everything that is beautiful' he also found time to indulge in the classical archaeology of his local Hampshire parishes. / John Gilbert Baker FRS was an English botanist. He subsequently worked at the library and herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew between 1866 and 1899 and was keeper of the herbarium from 1890 to 1899. He wrote handbooks on many plant groups including Amaryllidaceae Bromeliaceae Iridaceae Liliaceae and ferns. His published works include Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles 1877 and Handbook of the Irideae 1892. HEAVY BOOK – international buyers please contact for postage quote. Office [Journal of Horticulture], 1897-98. hardcover books
1951A few spots on front/back covers and page edges, slight wear to top/tail of spine.
1960réf. 120283New York, 1960-63. Gleichmäß. Hlwdbde. M. Rsign. St. a. Tit. Bd. 13 S. 201-208 lose.
19338vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece and facsimiles in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 900 COPIES.
1897réf. TK0352London:: Office Journal of Horticulture 1897-98. 1897. 2 annuals bound in 1 volume. 4to. 478; xi 1 514 pp. 52 large chromolithographic plates. Original half dark green morocco green cloth; rubbed. Very good. The beautiful and large chromolithographic plates that embellished these 2-years of issues are especially attractive. / Dedicated to the Rev. George Herbert Engleheart raiser of beautiful narcissi being the fifty-first volume of "The Garden". With the next issue dedicated to John Gilbert Baker of the Herbarium Royal Gardens Kew. / Reverend George Herbert Engleheart 1851-1936 achieved national prominence as one of the greatest ever breeders of daffodils Narcissus but as a 'highly cultured man well read and appreciative of everything that is beautiful' he also found time to indulge in the classical archaeology of his local Hampshire parishes. / John Gilbert Baker FRS was an English botanist. He subsequently worked at the library and herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew between 1866 and 1899 and was keeper of the herbarium from 1890 to 1899. He wrote handbooks on many plant groups including Amaryllidaceae Bromeliaceae Iridaceae Liliaceae and ferns. His published works include Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles 1877 and Handbook of the Irideae 1892. HEAVY BOOK – international buyers please contact for postage quote. Office [Journal of Horticulture], 1897-98. hardcover
1833réf. AQ25264London: John Harris 1833. 175pp 33. With engraved 19 plates and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's red roan-backed dark-green cloth boards lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed corners bumped. Internally clean and crisp. An anonymous primer for young children of the fundamentals of gardening particularly the seasonal planting of flowers; first published in 1831 as a part of the popular Little Library series published by John Harris. Moon 303 3. Third edition. 8vo. John Harris hardcover
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