Author: Shirley Hibberd
Title: The Fern Garden: How to Make, Keep, and Enjoy It
Description: London, Groombridge and Sons, 1869. First edition. Cloth. A charming first edition of this work on the gardening of ferns illustrated with eight chromolithographic plates. First edition. Presentation copy with embossed stamp to the title page. Illustrated with eight colour plates and forty wood engravings. Collated complete. Adapted to suit the unskilled and unlearned in fern gardening, covering topics of fern collection, cultivation, management and the art of multiplying ferns. Written by James Shirley Hibberd, an English writer who became one of the most popular and successful gardening writers of the Victorian era. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light scattered spotting to the first and last few pages with age toning to the endpapers. Embossed stamp to the title page. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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