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Hardback. Condition: Good. Small octavo blue cloth gilt spine. Top edge gilt 366 pages + publisher's adverts. Frontispiece. Good condition corners rubbed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 366 pages. Clean raspberry binding, colour-faded spine. Light wear to spine-ends & boards' corners. Front endpaper/flyleaf removed. Contents very clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Undated edition. Maroon boards. Front inner hinge cracked. Fading mainly on the spine. No jacket.

9th edition. 8.5" x 5.5". xii + 381pp + [6]pp pub cat. Bookplate of Viscount Mountgarret on paste down fep. 'Mother, Xmas 1897' written in ink on half title. Head of spine pulled. Spine discoloured. Foxing. Good hardback in publishers original green cloth gilt.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 5th or later Edition. This copy is in fine, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine which is sunned. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Pot?Pourri from a Surrey Garden by C. W. Earle is one of those quietly influential late?Victorian books that slips between genres?part gardening diary, part domestic philosophy, part social observation?and ends up feeling like a window into an entire way of life. First published in 1897, this copy is described as the ninth edition It's a collection of essays, notes, letters, and reflections drawn from the author's life at her Surrey home. It isn't a gardening manual in the strict sense. Instead, it's a literary scrapbook: gardening advice, household management, travel impressions, recipes, quotations, and personal musings all mixed together?hence the title Pot?Pourri. Ref XXXT.