BEETON'S GARDENING BOOK. Containing Full and Practical Instructions concerning General Garden Operations, the Flower Garden, the Fruit Garden, the Kitchen Garden, Pests of the Month, with a Monthly Calendar of work to be done in the Garden throughout the Year. [Cover Title:] BEETON'S SHILLING GARDENING BOOK.

Published by Ward, Lock, and Tyler, Warwick House, Paternoster Row, E.C. [n.d., c. 1870-80], London, 1870

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8vo. 7 x 4.75 inches. [vi], including advertisements + 252 pp. + 32 pp. publisher's list. Bound in original green cloth with black titles. Advertisement endpapers. Some wear to extremities, including corners and head of spine. foxing of fore edge, but otherwise a very good copy. Early Amateur Gardener inscription on front pastedown. Illustrated by engraved text figures. Decorated by contents pages and headpiece vignettes and by publisher's device on title page. One of the enterprises of the publisher, Samuel Orchart Beeton (1831-78), who also issued The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine and The Boy's Own Magazine. He encouraged his wife, Isabella (1836-65) to write the Beeton's Book of Household Management, which he first published in parts 1859-61, before its subsequent success as a book. Beeton sold his titles for a while to Ward, Lock, but continued to produce them. In 1872 there was a falling out with the firm over his anti-monarchist views After two court cases concerning the use of the Beeton name he regained his independence in 1875, but without his titles. GARDENING HORTICULTURE GARDENING MANUALS 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED GARDENING.…

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BEETON'S GARDENING BOOK. Containing Full and Practical Instructions concerning General Garden Operations, the Flower Garden, the Fruit Garden, the Kitchen Garden, Pests of the Month, with a Monthly Calendar of work to be done in the Garden throughout the Year. [Cover Title:] BEETON'S SHILLING GARDENING BOOK.
Author
[BEETON, SAMUEL ORCHART].
Publisher
Ward, Lock, and Tyler, Warwick House, Paternoster Row, E.C. [n.d., c. 1870-80], London
Publication year
1870

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Founded by Patrick Marrin's father George in 1946, Marrin's Bookshop has been based in its current Folkestone location since 1963. Patrick has worked in bookselling since 1970. As well as rare antiquarian books, maps and prints, the stock includes a wide range of literature, library sets, travel, history and illustrated books in all fields. We also offer a bookbinding and restoration service. Visitors to the shop are welcome and we exhibit at UK book fairs. A large proportion of our stock can be searched on this website, or at http://www.marrinbook.co.uk.…

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