Author: Charles M'Intosh
Title: The Book of the Garden
Description: Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1853. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated set on constructing and cultivating gardens. Complete in two volumes. First edition. A comprehensive high Victorian gardening book with specific reference to creating structures and forming flower, culinary, and fruit gardens, with commentary on a large variety of plants. There are also detailed notes on the use of glasshouses and hothouses in the garden. Volume one is illustrated with a total of thirty-three plates to the rear of the text: fifteen monochromatic plates, two of which are in colour, and eighteen folding plates, two of which are also in colour. Though plate twenty-two is listed in the contents, it was never published and an explanation as to why is included in-text. Collated complete. Volume two is illustrated with many in-text illustrations. Written by Charles M'Intosh, an English plant biologist and writer who established some of the British principles of gardening. Publisher's advertisements to the rear of volume two. Bound by Edmonds & Remnants, London. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and bumping to the extremities resulting in light fraying to the cloth. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. A split in the cloth to the front joint of volume one. Both hinges are tender to each volume. Internally, generally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Light spotting to the first and last few pages. Bound by Edmonds & Remnants, London. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .
Keywords: Book Garden Gardening M'Intosh Garden Not Stated
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Title: The Book of the Garden
Description: Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1853. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated set on constructing and cultivating gardens. Complete in two volumes. First edition. A comprehensive high Victorian gardening book with specific reference to creating structures and forming flower, culinary, and fruit gardens, with commentary on a large variety of plants. There are also detailed notes on the use of glasshouses and hothouses in the garden. Volume one is illustrated with a total of thirty-three plates to the rear of the text: fifteen monochromatic plates, two of which are in colour, and eighteen folding plates, two of which are also in colour. Though plate twenty-two is listed in the contents, it was never published and an explanation as to why is included in-text. Collated complete. Volume two is illustrated with many in-text illustrations. Written by Charles M'Intosh, an English plant biologist and writer who established some of the British principles of gardening. Publisher's advertisements to the rear of volume two. Bound by Edmonds & Remnants, London. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and bumping to the extremities resulting in light fraying to the cloth. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. A split in the cloth to the front joint of volume one. Both hinges are tender to each volume. Internally, generally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Light spotting to the first and last few pages. Bound by Edmonds & Remnants, London. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .
Keywords: Book Garden Gardening M'Intosh Garden Not Stated
Price: GBP 195.00 = appr. US$ 278.46 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 875T1
- Book number: 875T1
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