Author: Shirely Hibberd
Title: Familiar Garden Flowers
Description: London , Cassell and Company, c1883. Cloth. Three illustrated volumes of Shirley Hibberd's Familiar Garden Flowers. Three volumes from the five volume set of Familiar Garden Flowers, being volume three, four and five. Shirley Hibberd was one of the most popular and successful gardening writers of the Victorian era. Volume three has forty plates detailing Greek Valerian, Avens and Salvia. Volume four also has forty plates and illustrates magnolia, orange lily and the mountain clematis. Volume five also has forty plates and describes the Spanish iris, giant balsam and hawthorn, with an index also. Collated, complete. Undated, dated from Jisc and the fact that  in 1883 the publisher's name changed to Cassell and Company, Limited. In full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Front hinges starting to vols 3 and 5, but they remain firm. Internally, generally firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages with some scattered spots throughout the volumes. Very Good . Ill.: F. Edward Hulme. Very Good .

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