Author: LOUDON J C
Title: The Suburban Horticulturist; or, an attempt to teach the science and practice of The Culture and Management of the Kitchen, Fruit, & Forcing Garden to those who had no previous knowledge or practice in these departments of gardens.
Description: London, William Smith for the author, 1842. xxxii, 732pp inc numerous wood engravings, 16pp publisher's adverts. Modern maroon cloth recase, with gilt lettering on spine, 22x15. A good copy thus, occasional foxing but mostly nice bright text. Small tear on title page professionally repaired. A great early Victorian work and one of Loudon's most detailed, and scarce, texts. It remains valuable still today for the information it contains.

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